{"id":337396,"date":"2021-10-12T18:31:03","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T15:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=337396"},"modified":"2021-10-12T18:31:03","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T15:31:03","slug":"us-orthodox-priest-documents-bucharest-orthodoxy-in-a-short-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/us-orthodox-priest-documents-bucharest-orthodoxy-in-a-short-film\/","title":{"rendered":"US Orthodox priest documents Bucharest Orthodoxy in a short film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Father Panayiotis Papageorgiou, a Cyprus-born American Christian Orthodox priest, visited the Capital city of Romania this summer. Together with his son, Efstratios Papageorgiou, he is making a documentary series about Eastern European Orthodoxy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The short film series is entitled &#8220;Neither Here Nor in Jerusalem&#8221; and the episode dedicated to Bucharest is the sixth.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zf_fzQh45L0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In Bucharest, they visited Radu Vod\u0103 and Antim monasteries, the Patriarchal Cathedral and &#8220;Bucur the Shepherd&#8221; Church, around which the city is said to have originated. They also went to Cernica Monastery, where they paid homage to Father Dumitru St\u0103niloae at his tomb.<\/p>\n<p>Another important destination on their route was the Chapel of the National Cathedral, where they were deeply moved by the faithful asking for Father Panayiotis Papageorgiou&#8217;s blessing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Romanians are really a devout people, with great humility,&#8221; comments the narrator Efstratios Papageorgiou at this moment in the film.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_337169\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-337169\" style=\"width: 890px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-337169 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/243013566_4945793348782980_2576303875454259065_n-890x668.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"890\" height=\"668\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-337169\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">At the National Cathedral Chapel: a man whose name is Panaitescu (&#8220;son of Panayotis&#8221; &#8211; right) was so happy to meet a priest with the same patron name. Photo: Trisagion Films<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The short film presents the historic landmarks of the Romanian Orthodox Church: Holy Apostle Andrew&#8217;s spiritual patronage, receiving the autocephaly in 1885 and becoming a patriarchate in 1925.<\/p>\n<p>Father Panayiotis Papageorgiou, Chairman of Trisagion Films, is a doctor in Theology and serves near Atlanta, in the American state of Georgia. His son, Efstratios Papageorgiou, specializes in photography and video image.<\/p>\n<p>Father and son have a small non-profit in the United States, Trisagion Films, which produces video materials on topics of Orthodox faith.<\/p>\n<p>Before reaching Bucharest, they filmed in Sofia, Bulgaria. From Romania, they departed to Serbia and Kosovo.<\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: Lumina Newspaper archive (Bucharest&#8217;s &#8220;Bucur the Shepherd&#8221; Church)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Father Panayiotis Papageorgiou, a Cyprus-born American Christian Orthodox priest, visited the Capital city of Romania this summer. Together with his son, Efstratios Papageorgiou, he is making a documentary series about Eastern European Orthodoxy. The short film series is entitled &#8220;Neither Here Nor in Jerusalem&#8221; and the episode dedicated to Bucharest is the sixth. In Bucharest,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":337174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18771],"tags":[123,23549,10386,3765,246,26617,26618],"class_list":["post-337396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spirituality-en","tag-bucharest","tag-orthodox-film","tag-orthodox-news","tag-orthodoxy","tag-romania","tag-short-film","tag-trisagion-films"],"better_featured_image":{"id":337174,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":1200,"height":675,"file":"2021\/10\/GIF_6043-edit.jpg","sizes":{"medium":{"file":"GIF_6043-edit-890x501.jpg","width":890,"height":501,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/GIF_6043-edit-890x501.jpg"},"large":{"file":"GIF_6043-edit-1024x576.jpg","width":1024,"height":576,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/GIF_6043-edit-1024x576.jpg"},"thumbnail":{"file":"GIF_6043-edit-360x360.jpg","width":360,"height":360,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/GIF_6043-edit-360x360.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1439289707","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1","keywords":[]}},"post":337396,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/GIF_6043-edit.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337396\/"}],"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=337396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337396\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337174\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=337396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=337396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=337396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}