The Week in Pictures: September 7 –13, 2020

Please see below the beauty of Orthodoxy captured through the photo lens last week.

Procession with the Icon of the Mother of God at the patronal feast of the church in Rozavlea, the county of Maramureș, birthplace of His Grace Iustin, Bishop of Maramureș and Sătmar. Photo: Facebook / Diocese of Maramureș and Sătmar
The Patriarch of Antioch ordained Archdeacon Meletios Shattahi to the priesthood. Photo: Patriarchate of Antioch
Sihăstria Monastery on the day of its historical patronal feast: The Nativity of the Mother of God. Photo: Sihăstria Monastery / Fr. Ghelasie
The feast of the Beheading of St John the Baptist at the place where the prophet was imprisoned. Photo: Jerusalem Patriarchate
The Archdiocesan Cathedral in Curtea de Argeș at night. Photo: Drumea Gabriel
Actor Mickey Rourke holding an icon of the Mother of God in Greece, where he is filming for the “Man of God” movie. Photo: Orthodoxia News Agency
Archbishop Elpidophoros of America with the relatives of the victims of the September 11 attack. Photo: Facebook / Archbishop Elpidophoros of America
Monk from Comana Monastery in a moment of prayer. Photo: Comana Monastery / Dragoș Grigore
His Eminence Andrei, Metropolitan of Cluj, was greeted with the traditional bread and salt at Huedin’s Cathedral of the Moț County. Photo: Facebook / Metropolis of Cluj, Maramureș and Sălaj
Fresco from the Lord’s Ascension Church in the town of Dobreștii de Sus, Argeș county. Photo: Drumea Gabriel
Patriarch Theodoros of Alexandria visited Paphos. Photo: Church of Cyprus
A moment captured during the Special prayer for deliverance from new coronavirus epidemic uttered at the end of all religious services in the Romanian Patriarchate. The prayer was written and transmitted in March 2020 by His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of Romania. Photo: Mădălina Cimpoieru
Children in traditional costumes at the Church Settlement in München, during the service for the blessing of the bells. Photo: Facebook / Episcop Sofian Brașoveanul
HE Casian celebrated the National Day of the Romanian Firemen at the Inspectorate for Emergency Situations “General Eremia Grigorescu“ from the city of Galaţi. Photo: Facebook / Archdiocese of Lower Danube
On the Sunday Before the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, the faithful participated in the Divine Liturgy officiated in open air by His Grace Timotei of Sătmar at the “Exaltation of the Holy Cross” Skete from Săliștea de Sus, in the county of Maramureș. Photo: Facebook / Diocese of Maramureș and Sătmar
Faithful in front of the church of the “Exaltation of the Holy Cross” Skete in the village of Buleni, Săliștea de Sus. Photo: Facebook / Diocese of Maramureș and Sătmar
Procession during the consecration of the church of the Entry of the Mother of God into the Temple in Moscow’s Veshnyaki district. Photo: Patriarchate of Moscow / Serghei Vlasov

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