{"id":178025,"date":"2017-10-05T13:20:25","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T10:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=178025\/"},"modified":"2017-10-05T13:50:19","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T10:50:19","slug":"holy-synod-elects-new-bishop-of-husi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/holy-synod-elects-new-bishop-of-husi\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy Synod elects new Bishop of Hu\u015fi!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>His Grace Ignatie of Mure\u015f was elected new Bishop of the Hu\u015fi Diocese.<\/h4>\n<p>During the working session of the Holy Synod, chaired Thursday by His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel, the members of the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church elected by a majority vote the new Bishop of Hu\u015fi.<\/p>\n<p>Last weekend, the Metropolitan Synod (Episcopal Assembly) of Moldavia and Bukovina proposed two candidates for the Diocese of Hu\u015fi:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>His Grace Ignatie of Mure\u015f, Assistant Bishop to the Romanian Orthodox Diocese of Spain and Portugal,<\/li>\n<li>The Very Rev. Archimandrite Nichifor Horia, Administrative exarch of the Ia\u015fi Archdiocese and abbot of the Three Holy Hierarchs Monastery in Ia\u015fi.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The episcopal see of Hu\u015fi became vacant in August following the resignation of Bishop Corneliu. According to the Statute of the Romanian Orthodox Church, the Holy Synod must elect a new bishop sixty days after the vacancy of an episcopal see is acknowledged.<\/p>\n<p>The synodal agenda includes the canonization of Metropolitan Joseph the Merciful of Moldavia and the lay-ascetic George the Pilgrim.<\/p>\n<p>In his opening speech, Patriarch Daniel said that Saint Neophyte the Recluse from Cyprus would be added to the calendar of the Romanian Orthodox Church.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/PS-Ignatie2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-178028\" src=\"http:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/PS-Ignatie2-890x501.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"890\" height=\"501\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Photograph: Basilica.ro<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His Grace Ignatie of Mure\u015f was elected new Bishop of the Hu\u015fi Diocese. During the working session of the Holy Synod, chaired Thursday by His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel, the members of the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church elected by a majority vote the new Bishop of Hu\u015fi. Last weekend, the Metropolitan Synod (Episcopal&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":177989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[11853,10608,4671,52,66,2367,53],"class_list":["post-178025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-romanian-patriarchate","tag-bishop-ignatie","tag-bishop-of-husi","tag-election","tag-holy-synod","tag-patriarch-daniel","tag-patriarhul-daniel-en","tag-romanian-orthodox-church"],"better_featured_image":{"id":177989,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":1024,"height":683,"file":"2017\/10\/Sedinta-Sfantul-Sinod-al-BOR.jpg","sizes":{"medium":{"file":"Sedinta-Sfantul-Sinod-al-BOR-890x594.jpg","width":890,"height":594,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Sedinta-Sfantul-Sinod-al-BOR-890x594.jpg"},"thumbnail":{"file":"Sedinta-Sfantul-Sinod-al-BOR-360x360.jpg","width":360,"height":360,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Sedinta-Sfantul-Sinod-al-BOR-360x360.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"4","credit":"Robert Nicolae","camera":"NIKON D5","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1477657972","copyright":"Agentia de stiri Basilica","focal_length":"70","iso":"2000","shutter_speed":"0.005","title":"","orientation":"1","keywords":[]}},"post":177988,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Sedinta-Sfantul-Sinod-al-BOR.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178025\/"}],"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=178025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178025\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177989\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=178025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=178025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=178025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}