{"id":279913,"date":"2020-05-20T11:57:01","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T08:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=279913"},"modified":"2020-05-20T16:23:29","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T13:23:29","slug":"archbishop-pimen-to-be-buried-at-sihastria-putnei-monastery-patriarchates-spokesperson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/archbishop-pimen-to-be-buried-at-sihastria-putnei-monastery-patriarchates-spokesperson\/","title":{"rendered":"Archbishop Pimen to be buried at Sihastria Putnei Monastery \u2013 Patriarchate\u2019s spokesperson"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Romanian Patriarchate’s Spokesperson Vasile Banescu announced Wednesday that the burial of Archbishop Pimen will take place at Sih\u0103stria Putnei Monastery, in Suceava.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Archbishop Pimen of Suceava and R\u0103d\u0103u\u021bi, 90, reposed<\/a> in the Lord on Wednesday, May 20, 2020, at the Matei Bal\u0219 Infectious Diseases Institute in Bucharest following a second heart attack.<\/p>\n

“The Romanian Orthodox Church today lost a worthy hierarch, the one who was the Archbishop of Suceava and Radauti for the last 29 years and whose name, along with those of its predecessors, will always remain linked to the protection of Bukovina’s splendid monasteries,” declared Vasile B\u0103nescu.<\/p>\n

The spokesman recalled a word that Archbishop Pimen always said: “That is why I became a priest, to learn to die every day. We prepare for the great encounter with Him every day.”
\nThe funeral’s details will be set by the Archdiocese of Suceava together with the Metropolis of Moldavia and Bukovina.<\/p>\n

“According to the legislation in force for the cases of deceased people diagnosed with Covid-19, after being placed in the sealed coffin, he will be taken over by the Archdiocese of Suceava and Radauti, which, together with the Metropolis of Moldavia and Bukovina, will decide the date and details of the funeral.”<\/p>\n

Photography courtesy of Sih\u0103stria Putnei Monastery<\/p>\n

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The Romanian Patriarchate’s Spokesperson Vasile Banescu announced Wednesday that the burial of Archbishop Pimen will take place at Sih\u0103stria Putnei Monastery, in Suceava. Archbishop Pimen of Suceava and R\u0103d\u0103u\u021bi, 90, reposed in the Lord on Wednesday, May 20, 2020, at the Matei Bal\u0219 Infectious Diseases Institute in Bucharest following a second heart attack. “The Romanian…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":279911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[8026,22491,22763,10386,53,7244],"class_list":["post-279913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dioceses","tag-archbishop-pimen","tag-coronavirus-en","tag-covid-19-en","tag-orthodox-news","tag-romanian-orthodox-church","tag-sihastria-putnei-monastery"],"better_featured_image":{"id":279911,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":1600,"height":899,"file":"2020\/05\/dji_0024-2.jpg","sizes":{"medium":{"file":"dji_0024-2-890x500.jpg","width":890,"height":500,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/dji_0024-2-890x500.jpg"},"large":{"file":"dji_0024-2-1024x575.jpg","width":1024,"height":575,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/dji_0024-2-1024x575.jpg"},"thumbnail":{"file":"dji_0024-2-360x360.jpg","width":360,"height":360,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/dji_0024-2-360x360.jpg"},"1536x1536":{"file":"dji_0024-2-1536x863.jpg","width":1536,"height":863,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/dji_0024-2-1536x863.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":279913,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/dji_0024-2.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279913\/"}],"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=279913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279913\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279911\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=279913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=279913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=279913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}