The Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church met Tuesday, 4 July 2017, at the Synodal Hall of the Patriarchal Residence. His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of Romania, chaired the working session.<\/p>\n
During the meeting, the Holy Synod elected two Assistant Bishops for the Archdiocese of Suceava and R\u0103d\u0103u\u021bi, and namely for the Archdiocese of Arad.<\/p>\n
The members of the Holy Synod elected the Very Reverend Archimandrite Damaschin Luchian as Assistant Bishop to the Archdiocese of Suceava and R\u0103d\u0103u\u021bi, with 39 out of the total 45 valid votes cast. The new Assistant Bishop will bear the title \u201cof Dorna\u201d.<\/p>\n
During the same meeting, the members of the Holy Synod elected His Grace Emilian of Lovi\u0219te as Assistant Bishop to the Archdiocese of Arad, with 43 votes out of the total 46 valid votes cast. His Grace Bishop Emilian will bear the new title \u201cof Cri\u0219ana\u201d.<\/p>\n
Press Office of the Romanian Patriarchate<\/em><\/p>\n Photograph: Robert Nicolae\/ Basilica.ro<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church met Tuesday, 4 July 2017, at the Synodal Hall of the Patriarchal Residence. His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of Romania, chaired the working session. During the meeting, the Holy Synod elected two Assistant Bishops for the Archdiocese of Suceava and R\u0103d\u0103u\u021bi, and namely for the Archdiocese of Arad.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":170206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9428,9427,9426,9425,52,66,53,9429],"class_list":["post-170207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases","tag-archdiocese-of-arad","tag-archdiocese-of-suceava-and-radauti","tag-assistant-bishop","tag-elections","tag-holy-synod","tag-patriarch-daniel","tag-romanian-orthodox-church","tag-synodal-decisions"],"better_featured_image":{"id":170206,"alt_text":"Assistant Bishops elected by the Holy Synod","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":1024,"height":576,"file":"2017\/07\/Noi-Episcopi-vicari-in-BOR.jpg","sizes":{"medium":{"file":"Noi-Episcopi-vicari-in-BOR-890x501.jpg","width":890,"height":501,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Noi-Episcopi-vicari-in-BOR-890x501.jpg"},"thumbnail":{"file":"Noi-Episcopi-vicari-in-BOR-360x360.jpg","width":360,"height":360,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Noi-Episcopi-vicari-in-BOR-360x360.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"2.8","credit":"Robert Nicolae","camera":"NIKON D5","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1499174229","copyright":"Agentia de stiri Basilica","focal_length":"85","iso":"2000","shutter_speed":"0.004","title":"","orientation":"1","keywords":[]}},"post":170204,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Noi-Episcopi-vicari-in-BOR.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170207\/"}],"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=170207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170207\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170206\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=170207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=170207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=170207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}