{"id":149788,"date":"2016-11-09T13:52:11","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T11:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/?p=149788"},"modified":"2016-11-09T13:52:11","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T11:52:11","slug":"divine-liturgy-and-funeral-service-for-he-archbishop-justinian-chira","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/divine-liturgy-and-funeral-service-for-he-archbishop-justinian-chira\/","title":{"rendered":"Divine Liturgy and Funeral Service for HE Archbishop Justinian Chira"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An impressive assembly of hierarchs, hundreds of priests and thousands of believers came Thursday, 3 November 2016, at the Cathedral in Baia Mare, to bid farewell to Archbishop Justinian Chira. A hierarchal Divine Liturgy preceded the Funeral Service.<\/p>\n<p>His Eminence Teofan, Metropolitan of Moldova and Bukovina, read out the funeral message of His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel for Archbishop Justinian.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Through his faithfulness towards the Orthodox faith and the liturgical and canonical tradition of our Church, His Eminence Archbishop Justinian remains in our memory as a champion hierarch, a dynamic shepherd and a pious ministrant. Furthermore, the Voivode of Maramure\u015f was a great patriot, who loved and defended the spiritual and cultural values of the Romanian people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In his message, the Patrairch of Romania pointed out the fruitful Church ministry of Archbishop Justinian.\u00a0The passing away of this venerable hierarch means &#8220;<em>a great loss and an unspeakable sorrow<\/em>&#8221; for our Church, His Beatitude said.<\/p>\n<p>Next, His Eminence Andrei, Metropolitan of Cluj, Maramure\u015f and\u00a0S\u0103laj, and\u00a0<em>locum tenens\u00a0<\/em>of the Diocese of\u00a0Maramure\u0219 and S\u0103tmar, emphasised the qualities of Archbishop Justinian that would maintain his memory eternal after death.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives of the President and of the Government of Romania were also present, and delivered their messages of condolences.<\/p>\n<p>Archbishop Justinian was then buried at <em>St Anna<\/em>\u00a0&#8211; Rohia Monastery<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Ftrinitastv%2Fvideos%2F575032749348059%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An impressive assembly of hierarchs, hundreds of priests and thousands of believers came Thursday, 3 November 2016, at the Cathedral in Baia Mare, to bid farewell to Archbishop Justinian Chira. A hierarchal Divine Liturgy preceded the Funeral Service. His Eminence Teofan, Metropolitan of Moldova and Bukovina, read out the funeral message of His Beatitude Patriarch&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":149782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dioceses"],"better_featured_image":{"id":149782,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":960,"height":641,"file":"2016\/11\/Inmormantare-IPS-Iustinian.jpg","sizes":{"medium":{"file":"Inmormantare-IPS-Iustinian-890x594.jpg","width":890,"height":594,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Inmormantare-IPS-Iustinian-890x594.jpg"},"thumbnail":{"file":"Inmormantare-IPS-Iustinian-360x360.jpg","width":360,"height":360,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Inmormantare-IPS-Iustinian-360x360.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","keywords":[]}},"post":149414,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Inmormantare-IPS-Iustinian.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149788\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=149788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149788\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149782\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=149788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=149788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=149788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}