“God grants His grace to those who possess the humility that comes from much labour,” Patriarch Daniel said on Sunday at the St George Chapel of the Patriarchal Residence, where he explained the Gospel account of the first Miraculous Catch of Fish. The Patriarch of Romania noted that the Saviour Jesus Christ did not perform…
On Thursday, 24 September 2026, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel of the Romanian Orthodox Church received Stelios Angeloudis, Mayor of Thessaloniki, Greece, at the Patriarchal Residence in Bucharest. The meeting was also attended by Her Excellency Evangelia Grammatika, Ambassador of Greece to Romania; Vasilis Gakis, Deputy Mayor of Thessaloniki for Culture, Tourism Development and Intermunicipal Cooperation;…
On Wednesday, 30 September 2026, the Romanian Orthodox Church will mark 19 years since His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel’s enthronement. On this occasion, the Divine Liturgy will be celebrated from 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. at the Patriarchal Cathedral. Following the Divine Liturgy, at 11:00 a.m., a Te Deum service will be officiated at the Patriarchal Cathedral,…
Romanian public broadcaster TVR reported from Cartal, in Ukraine’s Odesa region, where Romanian children were able to return to a Romanian-language school class that local Ukrainian authorities had closed just four days after the school year began. Following intervention by Romanian authorities at the highest level, the decision was reversed, and the children were able…
Deacon Dr Rareș Ionașcu is a psychiatrist and serves the Romanian Orthodox Church in the diaspora. He practises psychiatry in France, in the Angoulême area, and serves as a deacon at the Romanian Orthodox Parish of St Joseph and St John of San Francisco in Bordeaux. Actively engaged in dialogue between medical science and Christian…
Romania’s Ministry of Education and Research has published the syllabus for Orthodox Christian Religion for the 2030 Baccalaureate examination. The document outlines the competencies and content students must prepare for the exam, Edupedu reports. The syllabus for Orthodox Christianity is structured around competencies aimed both at knowledge and expression of religious identity and at students’…
Archbishop Calinic of Suceava and Rădăuți called for reconciliation with others on the International Day of Peace, saying: “Peace cannot bear fruit in a soul that cultivates its own righteousness, because a person who is at peace is not one who considers themselves faultless, but one who knows how to recognise their own share of…
More and more people feel lonely, even within their families or communities. Relationships require attention, humility, responsibility, and effort to survive, while family unity can erode not only through major crises but also through a lack of dialogue, resentment, and unrepaired wounds. We spoke about loneliness, family life, the formation of adolescents and the role…
St Sophrony the Athonite was born in Moscow on 22 September 1896 and was baptised Sergei Semyonovich Sakharov. He studied Fine Arts in Moscow, searching for an ideal of beauty that transcended the purely aesthetic. During the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, he was arrested twice and imprisoned at the Lubyanka, but in 1921 he managed…
An international team from five countries, comprising architects, designers, filmmakers and conservation specialists, is seeking to save an approximately 1,100-year-old Georgian church in north-eastern Turkey that is at risk of collapse. According to a press release from Spanish architect and project coordinator Tassilo de la Torre Schönborn, Nuka Sakdari Church is in Artvin Province and…
His Beatitude Patriarch Daniil of Bulgaria will visit Jerusalem and Jordan from 25 to 30 September, during which he will meet Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem. Patriarch Daniil’s delegation will include Metropolitan Ioan of Varna and Veliki Preslav, Metropolitan Seraphim of Nevrokop and Bishop Gerasim of Melnik, Secretary-General of the Holy Synod. The Patriarchate of…
Metropolitan Varnavas of Neapolis and Stavroupolis of the Orthodox Church of Greece brought a fragment of the venerable wood of the Holy Cross to the Church of St. Paraskeva and the Life-Giving Spring (Union Cathedral) in Focșani, Romania, on Sunday. Archbishop Ciprian of Buzău and Vrancea celebrated the Divine Liturgy with the Greek hierarch. Archbishop…
Restoration work at Hagia Sophia in Constantinople has revealed nine kilometres of underground tunnels. Parts of the network could be opened to visitors once restoration is complete, Turkey’s Minister of Culture and Tourism, Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, has announced. “However, there are collapses and areas that prevent passage. We are currently continuing cleaning and restoration work…
Metropolitan Teofan of Moldavia and Bukovina presented an award to Fr Andrew Louth, Professor Emeritus at Durham University in the United Kingdom, in recognition of his contribution to the study and promotion of patristic theology. Last Friday, the Moldavian Cross, the highest distinction awarded by the Metropolis of Moldavia and Bukovina, was presented during the…
The Romanian Government’s Department for Romanians Abroad has announced that it is preparing to launch the “Support for Romanian-Language Education in Ukraine – 2026” programme, which will provide three forms of financial assistance for pupils, university students and teachers. Each eligible pupil, student, or teacher will receive 2,000 RON in financial support. The grants will be…
“It unites us with Christ, who transforms pain into joy, suffering into hope, loneliness into communion and weakness into spiritual victory,” His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel said of the Holy Cross on Sunday at the historic Chapel of the Great Martyr George at the Patriarchal Residence. Reflecting on the Saviour’s call to take up one’s cross,…
Representatives of the Orthodox Churches to the European Union met in Brussels on Thursday to discuss how to organise future projects. The meeting was held at the Ambiorix Orthodox Centre and chaired by Metropolitan Athenagoras of Belgium, Exarch of the Netherlands and Luxembourg of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. Fr Sorin Șelaru and Fr George Vâlcu, representatives…
Friday marks 65 years since the repose of Hieromartyr Hilarion Felea, who confessed the Orthodox faith through his pastoral and teaching ministry as well as during years of imprisonment under Romania’s communist regime. He was born on 21 March 1903 in Valea Bradului, Hunedoara County, Romania, into a priest’s family. After completing his primary and…
“It shows us the perspective from which we should view at least the Church Year that is beginning, if not our entire lives,” Bishop Ioan Casian of Canada said in a reflection on the Holy Cross. The bishop celebrated the Divine Liturgy on Monday at the Cathedral of Sts Constantine and Helen and St Paraskeva…
His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel of the Romanian Orthodox Church received Riley Barnes, US Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom and Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labour, at the Patriarchal Residence on Thursday, 17 September 2026. Darryl Nirenberg, United States Ambassador to Romania, also attended, along with representatives of the US Department…