{"id":278231,"date":"2020-04-27T10:25:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T07:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=278231"},"modified":"2020-04-27T10:25:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T07:25:00","slug":"suceava-assistant-bishop-calls-for-prayer-for-90-year-old-archbishop-pimen-after-positive-result","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/suceava-assistant-bishop-calls-for-prayer-for-90-year-old-archbishop-pimen-after-positive-result\/","title":{"rendered":"Suceava assistant bishop calls for prayer for 90-year-old Archbishop Pimen after positive result"},"content":{"rendered":"

The assistant bishop to the Archdiocese of Suceava and Radauti urged the clergy and believers to join prayers for the recovery of the 90-year-old Archbishop Pimen who is hospitalized at Matei Bals Hospital in Bucharest after testing positive for coronavirus.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2018We have this spiritual duty to His Eminence Archbishop Pimen, as one who also carried us in prayer, blessed us, forgave us, guided us with love, being for so many decades for us all a true spiritual father,\u2019 wrote bishop Damaschin of Dorna in a letter addressed to priests, monastics and laypeople.<\/p>\n

Bishop Damaschin urged everyone \u2018wholeheartedly\u2019 to multiply prayer for the recovery of Suceava\u2019s Archbishop so that he may return \u2018with renewed powers\u2019 in the midst of the community of Bukovina.<\/p>\n

The assistant bishop concluded his letter dated April 21 by expressing his \u2018unwavering faith in God\u2019s providence\u2019 and \u2018the hope in His healing and comforting power.\u2019<\/p>\n

At the age of 90, Archbishop Pimen of Suceava and Radauti was confirmed with the new coronavirus and was brought, on Monday, April 20, to the “Matei Bals” Infectious Diseases Institute in Bucharest, by helicopter.<\/p>\n

The spokesperson of the Romanian Patriarchate, Vasile Banescu, referring to the archbishop\u2019s health state said that \u2018it is fragile, given his venerable age,\u2019 but it improves progressively.<\/p>\n

\u2018Beyond the apparent frail appearance, I believe that a hardened man is hiding in the ascetic and prayer zone,\u2019 Banescu noted on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Photography courtesy of Doxologia \/ Tudorel Rusu<\/p>\n

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The assistant bishop to the Archdiocese of Suceava and Radauti urged the clergy and believers to join prayers for the recovery of the 90-year-old Archbishop Pimen who is hospitalized at Matei Bals Hospital in Bucharest after testing positive for coronavirus. \u2018We have this spiritual duty to His Eminence Archbishop Pimen, as one who also carried…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":277806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[8026,23042,22491,22763,10386,53],"class_list":["post-278231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dioceses","tag-archbishop-pimen","tag-call-for-prayer","tag-coronavirus-en","tag-covid-19-en","tag-orthodox-news","tag-romanian-orthodox-church"],"better_featured_image":{"id":277806,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":1050,"height":590,"file":"2020\/04\/PS-Damaschin-Dorneanul.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"PS-Damaschin-Dorneanul-360x360.jpg","width":360,"height":360,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/PS-Damaschin-Dorneanul-360x360.jpg"},"medium":{"file":"PS-Damaschin-Dorneanul-890x500.jpg","width":890,"height":500,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/PS-Damaschin-Dorneanul-890x500.jpg"},"large":{"file":"PS-Damaschin-Dorneanul-1024x575.jpg","width":1024,"height":575,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/PS-Damaschin-Dorneanul-1024x575.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1587479800","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1","keywords":[]}},"post":278231,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/PS-Damaschin-Dorneanul.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278231\/"}],"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=278231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278231\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277806\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=278231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=278231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=278231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}