{"id":308679,"date":"2021-02-25T13:57:53","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T11:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=308679"},"modified":"2023-02-09T15:32:11","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T13:32:11","slug":"holy-synod-elects-assistant-bishop-to-deva-diocese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/holy-synod-elects-assistant-bishop-to-deva-diocese\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy Synod elects assistant bishop to Deva Diocese"},"content":{"rendered":"

During its working session on Thursday, the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church elected an assistant bishop for the Diocese of Deva and Hunedoara.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Assistant bishop-elect Nestor Dinculean\u0103, who until now was a vicar at the Diocese of Deva, will bear the title of His Grace Bishop Nestor of Hunedoara.<\/p>\n

Archimandrite Gherontie Ciupe, Diocesan Counselor at the Pastoral-Liturgical Sector of the Diocese of Deva and Hunedoara, also ran for the same position.<\/p>\n

The new Assistant Bishop was born on June 11, 1983, in Craiova, Dolj County. Between 2003-2007 he studied at the Faculty of Orthodox Theology in Craiova. In 2009 he graduated with a master’s degree from the same educational institution.<\/p>\n

He attended doctoral courses, between 2011-2014, at the Faculty of Orthodox Theology in Alba Iulia. He obtained a scholarship in Padua-Italy to write his doctoral thesis (2012-2013). He obtained his doctorate in 2015.<\/p>\n

In 2009 he was tonsured a monk and named Nestor. He was ordained a hieromonk in 2011 and elevated to the rank of archimandrite in 2014.<\/p>\n

In 2013, he served as Pastoral-Liturgical Counselor of the Diocese of Deva and Hunedoara for half a year.<\/p>\n

Between 2013-2018 he was an ecclesiastical administrative vicar, and since 2018 he has held the position of diocesan administrative vicar.<\/p>\n

Photography courtesy of Basilica.ro<\/strong><\/em><\/span> \/ Mircea Florescu<\/p>\n

Follow us on Twitter: @BasilicaNews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During its working session on Thursday, the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church elected an assistant bishop for the Diocese of Deva and Hunedoara. Assistant bishop-elect Nestor Dinculean\u0103, who until now was a vicar at the Diocese of Deva, will bear the title of His Grace Bishop Nestor of Hunedoara. Archimandrite Gherontie Ciupe, Diocesan…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":308701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[9426,10425,52,10386,25117,15620],"class_list":["post-308679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-romanian-patriarchate","tag-assistant-bishop","tag-diocese-of-deva-and-hunedoara","tag-holy-synod","tag-orthodox-news","tag-romanian-hierarchs","tag-stiri-ortodoxe-en"],"better_featured_image":{"id":308701,"alt_text":"","caption":"Arhiereul vicar Nestor Hunedoreanul. Foto credit: Basilica.ro \/ Mircea Florescu","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":1200,"height":800,"file":"2021\/02\/Sinod-2021-vicari-106.jpg","sizes":{"medium":{"file":"Sinod-2021-vicari-106-890x593.jpg","width":890,"height":593,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Sinod-2021-vicari-106-890x593.jpg"},"large":{"file":"Sinod-2021-vicari-106-1024x683.jpg","width":1024,"height":683,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Sinod-2021-vicari-106-1024x683.jpg"},"thumbnail":{"file":"Sinod-2021-vicari-106-360x360.jpg","width":360,"height":360,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Sinod-2021-vicari-106-360x360.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"2.8","credit":"Mircea Florescu","camera":"Canon EOS 5D Mark IV","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1614255275","copyright":"BASILICA.RO","focal_length":"35","iso":"3200","shutter_speed":"0.004","title":"","orientation":"0","keywords":[]}},"post":null,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Sinod-2021-vicari-106.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308679\/"}],"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=308679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308679\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308701\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=308679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=308679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=308679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}