{"id":320011,"date":"2021-05-26T13:23:12","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T10:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=320011"},"modified":"2021-05-26T13:23:12","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T10:23:12","slug":"bessarabians-mark-3rd-anniversary-of-the-re-establishment-of-balti-diocese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/bessarabians-mark-3rd-anniversary-of-the-re-establishment-of-balti-diocese\/","title":{"rendered":"Bessarabians mark 3rd anniversary of the re-establishment of B\u0103l\u021bi Diocese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>His Grace Bishop Antonie celebrated on Monday three years since the re-establishment of the Balti Diocese and seven years of episcopal ministry.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Bishop of B\u0103l\u021bi celebrated the Divine Liturgy and a Te Deum service at the &#8220;Nativity of the Lord&#8221; Church in B\u0103l\u021bi.<\/p>\n<p>He described the re-establishment of the diocese as an act of justice and thanked everyone for their support of the pastoral-missionary and cultural-philanthropic activity of the diocese.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In order for justice and truth to triumph definitively, we have to recover the cathedral and the episcopal residence, built by the first bishop of the Romanian Orthodox Church who pastored in B\u0103l\u021bi, Visarion Puiu of blessed memory. And we will recover them because they are ours,&#8221; Bishop Antonie stressed May 24, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church elected Assistant Bishop Antonie of Orhei as diocesan bishop of B\u0103l\u021bi on May 24, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, after 74 years, he was elected the fourth canonical bishop of B\u0103l\u021bi.<\/p>\n<p>Photography courtesy of the Diocese of B\u0103l\u021bi<\/p>\n<p>Follow us on Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/basilicanews\">@BasilicaNews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His Grace Bishop Antonie celebrated on Monday three years since the re-establishment of the Balti Diocese and seven years of episcopal ministry. The Bishop of B\u0103l\u021bi celebrated the Divine Liturgy and a Te Deum service at the &#8220;Nativity of the Lord&#8221; Church in B\u0103l\u021bi. He described the re-establishment of the diocese as an act of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":319976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[17983,9780,10386,2199,53],"class_list":["post-320011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dioceses","tag-balti-diocese","tag-metropolis-of-bessarabia","tag-orthodox-news","tag-republic-of-moldova","tag-romanian-orthodox-church"],"better_featured_image":{"id":319976,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":718,"height":539,"file":"2021\/05\/191308574_4278575365488860_1410492753113445538_n.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"191308574_4278575365488860_1410492753113445538_n-360x360.jpg","width":360,"height":360,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/191308574_4278575365488860_1410492753113445538_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":320011,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/191308574_4278575365488860_1410492753113445538_n.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320011\/"}],"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=320011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320011\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319976\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=320011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=320011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=320011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}