{"id":208238,"date":"2018-09-26T14:39:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T11:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=208238"},"modified":"2018-09-26T14:39:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T11:39:00","slug":"days-of-cathedrals-consecration-to-begin-in-two-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/days-of-cathedrals-consecration-to-begin-in-two-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Days of Cathedral\u2019s Consecration to begin in two months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The six-day manifestation dedicated to the consecration of Romania\u2019s National Cathedral will begin in two months.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Several spiritual, liturgical, and cultural events will be organized by the Romanian Patriarchate on Nov. 25-30 to solemnly mark the consecration of the Romanian People\u2019s Salvation Cathedral.<\/p>\n<p>The manifestations that will last six days will bear the title of \u2018The Days of the Cathedral\u2019s Consecration\u2019, and are closely linked to the 1918 Great Union Centennial celebrated by Romania in 2018.<\/p>\n<h4>Consecration ceremony<\/h4>\n<p>The consecration of the Cathedral\u2019s holy altar and inlaid mosaic iconostasis will be officiated by His Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople on Sunday, November 25, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>After the consecration ceremony, all believers will be able to enter and venerate the holy altar for the next six days.<\/p>\n<p>The Ecumenical Patriarch is the only Primate of local Orthodox Churches that will join Patriarch Daniel and the Romanian Orthodox Church\u2019s hierarchs in consecrating the National Cathedral.<\/p>\n<h4>Relics of St Andrew the First Called<\/h4>\n<p>The manifestations include the reception of the holy relics of Saint Andrew the First-Called brought to Bucharest by His Eminence Metropolitan Chrysostomos of Patra.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_203607\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_203607\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-203607\" style=\"width: 466px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-203607\" src=\"http:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/M%C3%A2na-Sf.-Ap.-Andrei1-668x890.x71918.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"466\" height=\"621\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-203607\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The holy relics of Saint Andrew the First-called will be brought to Bucharest in November 2018. \u00a9Basilica.ro<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/figure>\n<h4>Patriarch of Jerusalem to lead the Cathedral\u2019s first patronal feast<\/h4>\n<p>His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem will arrive to Romania a few days after the consecration ceremony to lead the Cathedral\u2019s first patronal feast, on the feast day of Saint Andrew, protector and enlightener of Romania, November 30.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"ro\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Here are 5 things that you have to know about the consecration ceremony of Romania&#8217;s National Cathedral that is taking place this autumn. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TreSlOKefk\">pic.twitter.com\/TreSlOKefk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Basilica.ro (EN) (@BasilicaNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BasilicaNews\/status\/1032677599280091137?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">23 august 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Photography courtesy of Raluca Ene \/\u00a0<strong><em>Basilica.ro<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The six-day manifestation dedicated to the consecration of Romania\u2019s National Cathedral will begin in two months. Several spiritual, liturgical, and cultural events will be organized by the Romanian Patriarchate on Nov. 25-30 to solemnly mark the consecration of the Romanian People\u2019s Salvation Cathedral. The manifestations that will last six days will bear the title of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":208000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[10738,2468,886,66,556,4463,4418],"class_list":["post-208238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-romanian-patriarchate","tag-consecration-ceremony","tag-ecumenical-patriarch-bartholomew","tag-national-cathedral","tag-patriarch-daniel","tag-patriarch-theophilos","tag-romanian-peoples-salvation-cathedral","tag-saint-andrew"],"better_featured_image":{"id":208000,"alt_text":"","caption":"Catedrala M\u00e2ntuirii Neamului fotografiat\u0103 cu c\u00e2teva luni \u00eenainte de sfin\u021birea din noiembrie 2018. 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