{"id":290012,"date":"2020-09-02T20:20:34","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T17:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=290012"},"modified":"2020-09-02T20:23:54","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T17:23:54","slug":"a-century-from-the-re-establishment-of-the-historical-romanian-orthodox-diocese-of-oradea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/a-century-from-the-re-establishment-of-the-historical-romanian-orthodox-diocese-of-oradea\/","title":{"rendered":"A century from the re-establishment of the historical Romanian Orthodox Diocese of Oradea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>His Grace Sofronie, Bishop of Oradea, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eparhiaortodoxaoradea.ro\/stiri\/liturghie-arhiereasca-la-catedrala-episcopala-din-oradea-in-ziua-aniversarii-centenarului-reinfiintarii-episcopiei-oradiei\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">officiated<\/a> on Sunday the Divine Liturgy at the \u201cLord\u2019s Resurrection\u201d Orthodox Cathedral <\/strong><strong>in Oradea to celebrate a century from the re-establishment of the Diocese of Oradea through Royal decree.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On this occasion, the hierarch spoke of the historical meaning of the day of August 30 for the Romanian Orthodox Diocese of Oradea and gave thanks for all the good things worked by God in it.<\/p>\n<p>The celebrations will continue on September 19 and 20 with two consecrations: that of the new church at the Izbuc Monastery and that of the newly-built Orthodox Diocesan Cathedral in Oradea. The latter has as patronal feasts the Lord\u2019s Resurrection and Holy Hierarch Andrei, Metropolitan of Transylvania.<\/p>\n<p>The consecrations have been symbolically scheduled after the great feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross.<\/p>\n<p>The signing of the <a href=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/founders-of-greater-romania-to-be-remembered-in-all-churches-across-romania-on-1920-trianon-centenary\/\">Trianon<\/a> peace treaty, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eparhiaortodoxaoradea.ro\/stiri\/o-suta-de-ani-de-la-reinfiintarea-episcopiei-oradiei-30-august-1920\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in 1920<\/a>, assured international recognition for the union of the three provinces inhabited by Romanians in one national state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Law to re-establish the Old Diocese of Greater Oradea in Transylvania\u201d was signed in 1920 by Ferdinand I the Unifier, King of All Romania\u00a0and had one article: \u201cThe former Romanian Orthodox Diocese from Oradea-Mare, in Bihor County, is re-established in its historical rights\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>After 200 years, the Diocese of Oradea could have again its bishop on its historic episcopal throne.<\/p>\n<p>Between 1715-20 and 1920, the diocese <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eparhiaortodoxaoradea.ro\/centrul-eparhial\/istoricul-episcopiei-oradiei\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">had not been officially abolished<\/a>, but the Austrian authorities did not allow a bishop to reside in Oradea. In that period, the Bishop of Arad was <em>Locum-tenens<\/em> of the throne of Oradea, but the Oradea eparchy was not included in the Diocese of Arad.<\/p>\n<p>The year 2020 also marks 340 years from the first written mention of the Orthodox Diocese of Oradea (in 1680) and 325 years since the diocese and its bishop, Efrem, were mentioned in the <i>Diploma<\/i> issued by Austrian Emperor Leopold (in 1695).<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Facebook \/ The \u201cLord\u2019s Resurrection\u201d Orthodox Cathedral in Oradea<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Follow us on Twitter: @AgentiaBasilica and @BasilicaPhotos!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Thank you for reading Basilica.ro.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His Grace Sofronie, Bishop of Oradea, officiated on Sunday the Divine Liturgy at the \u201cLord\u2019s Resurrection\u201d Orthodox Cathedral in Oradea to celebrate a century from the re-establishment of the Diocese of Oradea through Royal decree.\u00a0 On this occasion, the hierarch spoke of the historical meaning of the day of August 30 for the Romanian Orthodox&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":289698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[14161,23721,23410,10386,246,15620],"class_list":["post-290012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dioceses","tag-1918-great-union","tag-diocese-of-oradea","tag-history-of-romania","tag-orthodox-news","tag-romania","tag-stiri-ortodoxe-en"],"better_featured_image":{"id":289698,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":720,"height":405,"file":"2020\/08\/93282020_558216051487845_6615335678450335744_n.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"93282020_558216051487845_6615335678450335744_n-360x360.jpg","width":360,"height":360,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/93282020_558216051487845_6615335678450335744_n-360x360.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":290012,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/93282020_558216051487845_6615335678450335744_n.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290012\/"}],"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\/19\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=290012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290012\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289698\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=290012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=290012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=290012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}