The Week in Pictures: June 20 – 26, 2022
Moments from the life of monks or lay people, patronal feasts and other images from the Orthodox world in our article “The Week in Pictures” from June 20 to June 26, 2022. Last week’s most-liked…
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Bishop Varlaam of Ploiești addresses theology students at graduation: True apostolic calling only begins here
Graduates of the Faculty of Orthodox Theology in Bucharest took the oath of allegiance on Monday, June 27. The ceremony was held at St Catherine University Chapel after the Divine Liturgy celebrated by the patriarchal…
6 years since the Holy and Great Council: Professing the true faith with humility and Christian love
Last Sunday marked six years since the conclusion of the works of the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church, which brought together hierarchs of ten of the fourteen autocephalous Orthodox Churches on the…
All-night vigil at Sihla Monastery marking Saint Theodora’s 30th canonization anniversary
An all-night vigil was held at Sihla Monastery to mark three decades since the canonization of Saint Theodora of Sihla on June 20. The monastery is located near the cell where the venerable woman lived…
His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel meets with Serbian Foreign Minister Selaković
His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel welcomed His Excellency Nikola Selaković, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia, who is paying an official visit to Romania, at the Patriarchal Palace on June 27, 2022. At…
France’s Canonical Orthodox Bishops meet in Paris
The Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of France met in Paris under the chairmanship of Metropolitan Demetrios (Ecumenical Patriarchate) on June 10, 2022. The hierarchs sent blessings to all Orthodox Christians in France on the…
Bălți Diocese opens educational centre for Ukrainian refugee children
On June 15, His Grace Bishop Antonie of Bălți officiated a blessing service at the opening of the Anastasis Educational Centre, where Ukrainian children displaced to Bălți can continue their online studies and keep in…
Halki Summit V becomes an inspiration for environmental projects in Romania
The participants at the Fifth Halki Summit, dedicated to protecting the environment and entitled “Sustaining the Future of the Planet Together”, issued a joint statement at the end of the conference. The participants from Romania…
2022: International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking in humanitarian crises
This year’s edition of the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, marked anually on June 26, has the theme “Addressing drug challenges in health and humanitarian crises”. In 2022, the world continues to…
World Refugee Day
On 4 December 2000, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in Resolution 55/76 decided that, from 2000, June 20, would be celebrated as World Refugee Day. In this resolution, the General Assembly noted that 2001…
2022: When does the Fast of the Holy Apostles begin?
This year, the Fast of the Holy Apostles begins on Monday, June 20, and lasts for nine days. The commemoration day of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul is celebrated every year on June 29.…
Consecration of St Stephen the Great Church in Vienna: a symbol of our people’s faith and worthiness on Austrian soil
His Eminence Metropolitan Serafim of Germany, Central and Northern Europe, consecrated on Saturday the altar of the Romanian Church dedicated to the Descent of the Holy Spirit and St Stephen the Great in Vienna, which…
Ecumenical Patriarchate adds new saint to the Orthodox calendar: Elder Bessarion the Agathonite
The Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate added on Tuesday a new saint to the Orthodox calendar: Archimandrite Bessarion Korkoliakos, also called “the Merciful Elder”, abbot of the Agathonos Monastery († January 22). The saint was…
World Blood Donor Day: An act of solidarity
World Blood Donor Day is marked annually on June 14 to raise awareness of the importance of blood donation. The goal of the observance is to encourage people to donate blood, but also to celebrate…
Patriarch Daniel: The Basilica Media Centre is a promoter of ecclesial and social communion in Romania and the diaspora
On Monday, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel praised the Basilica Media Centre of the Romanian Patriarchate as “a media ensemble necessary for the Romanian Orthodox Church in its mission of communicating the Gospel of Christ in…
Feast of Holy Trinity: Patronal feast of Romanian Patriarchate’s Basilica Media Centre
All five institutions that are part of the Basilica Media Centre of the Romanian Patriarchate have been placed under the protection of the Holy Trinity, having as their model and help the Divine Persons who…
Patriarch Daniel: Even offered in solitude, a Christian’s prayer is solidary, not solitary
Opening the works of the Spring Pastoral-Missionary Conference of the clergy of the Archdiocese of Bucharest on Monday, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel stressed that prayer is an act of communion: “A Christian’s prayer, even offered…
Christ Himself awaits us in His Father’s house: Metr. Nicolae at the summer patronal feast of Middletown Monastery
“Christ, Who has ascended to the heavens and is enthroned at the right hand of the Father, is the foundation of our hope that we also will eventually arrive in the house of the Father,”…