Please see below the beauty of the Orthodox world captured in our weekly photo feature from Romania and around the Orthodox world: photos taken from 6 to 12 February 2023.
The Chief Chaplains of NATO and Partnership for Peace member countries met in Bucharest, on February 6, 2023. Photo: Basilica.ro / Mircea FlorescuWinter landscape at the Monastery of Sihăstria Putnei. Photo: Vasile IonuțThe Patriarch of Serbia continues his visit to the United States, last week in Schererville, Indiana. Photo: Serbian PatriarchatePutna Monastery surrounded by snow on February 7, 2023. Photo: Putna MonasteryVigil at Berislăvești Monastery, in the county of Vâlcea. Photo: Hieromonk SiluanA little girl „sitting and talking” to St John Maximovici in the Cathedral of San Francisco. Photo: Protosyncellus Sofronie BobaruParaklesis to the Mother of God officiated at Pasărea Monastery near Bucharest, Romania, on February 9, 2023. Photo: Gabriel DrumeaBucharest’s Oțetari Parish holds part of Saint Charalampus’ relics and it celebrated the saint’s feast day on February 10, 2023. Photo: Basilica.ro / Mircea FlorescuGeneral view of Putna Monastery. Photo: Fr Nicu SpînuGreat Martyr Theodore Stratelates’ head was brought from Greece to Bucharest’s Old Bărbătescu Parish on February 10, 2023. Photo: Basilica.ro / Raluca EneThe Metropolitan Cathedral of Sibiu, under a veil of snow. Photo: Adelina AncuțaFrăsinei Monastery under snow. Photo: Gabriel DrumeaA spectacular image of the sunrise in Galati on February 11, 2023. Photo: Facebook / Maria Dima MăndițăHis Grace Visarion blessed the new bell at the Visterna Branch of the Enisala Parish on February 12, 2023. Photo: Diocese of TulceaBucharest’s community of the hearing impaired celebrated their spiritual patron, Saint Meletius, on February 12, 2023. Photo: Iulian ȚuguiThe Parepa Monastery, in the Archdiocese of Bucharest, under immaculate white snow. Photo: Hieromonk Benedict RusuThe Divine Liturgy celebrated by the local hierarch at “Saint Anne” Monastery in Rohia, the county of Maramureș, in northern Romania, on February 12, 2023. Photo: Diocese of Maramureș and SătmarNicula Monastery in the county of Cluj, Transylvania. Photo: Vasile-Narcis CiobanuFr Iraclie Porumbescu was commemorated in Frătăuții Noi, Suceava county, on February 12, 2023. Photo: Archdiocese of Suceava and Rădăuți
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