See our 2019 Instagram Top Nine!
With 2020 upon us, we share with you some of the most beautiful and liked posts on our Instagram page. In our four-year activity on Instagram, our page has grown to about 13,000 followers, which…
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Holy Synod General Secretary officially announces solemn and commemorative themes for 2020
The New Year Day marked the beginning of the Solemn Year of Pastoral Ministry of Parents and Children and the Commemorative Year of Romanian Orthodox Philanthropists. Following the New Year Divine Liturgy presided over by…
Patriarch Daniel on New Year: Focus on spiritual side of life / St. Basil was a spiritual and practical man
The Patriarch of Romania stressed that it is more important to grow spiritually than biologically and materially at the start of the New Year. In his first homily of 2020, Patriarch Daniel offered his reflections…
On New Year’s Eve, Patriarch Daniel points to the Church’s liturgical time as provision for eternal life
In a special New Year’s Eve watch night service Tuesday, Patriarch Daniel offered a message encouraging people to see the liturgical time of the Church as a provision for eternal life. ‘The service officiated during…
Hundreds pack Patriarchal Cathedral for New Year 2020 watch night service
Hundreds of people spent the New Year eve attending the watch night service at the Holy Emperors Cathedral in Bucharest. Bucharest’s Patriarchal Cathedral was crowded by those who wanted to offer prayers of thanksgiving together…
Archbishop Ieronymos: May the New Year be blessed, creative and peaceful!
“May the new year be blessed, creative and peaceful” Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece wished shortly after the cutting of the Vasilopita (New Year’s cake) of the Holy Synod of the Church of…
Patriarch Daniel’s Message for the New Year 2020: VIDEO
His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel addressed best wishes to all Romanians from home and abroad for the New Year 2020. ‘On the New Year 2020 and the feast of the Theophany, we address all Romanians from…
Key topics in 2020 to follow in the Orthodox world
It has become a custom for local Orthodox Churches to set a solemn or commemorative topic for the events organized the coming year. In the Romanian Patriarchate, this trend was set by the current Patriarch…
Romanian Bishop visits Viterbo prison on Christmas, encourages inmates
The assistant bishop to the Romanian Orthodox Diocese of Italy made a special effort to visit the Viterbo prison on Christmas Day. His Grace Bishop Atanasie of Bogdania was accompanied by Fr Walter Gabriel Andriuta…
Muslim converts to Orthodoxy at Apostol Parish in Bucharest
A Muslim converted to Orthodoxy this December and received the name of Saint Peter during a Baptism ceremony at Apostol Parish in Bucharest. ‘It was a unique event, I think, in the nearly 300-year history…