The Press Office of the Romanian Patriarchate informs us:
Tuesday, 24 January 2012, at the anniversary of 153 years since the Union of the Romanian Principalities (1859), which took place on the Patriarchate Hill, in a church building situated near the Metropolitan Cathedral at the time, prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Metropolitan Nifon of Wallachia, Metropolitan Sofronie Miclescu of Moldova and the other authors of the Union of the Romanian Principalities will be remembered at the Divine Liturgy celebrated in the Patriarchal Cathedral.
After the Divine Liturgy, at 11.00 o’clock, a Te Deum will be celebrated as thanksgiving to God for the accomplishment of this great act in the history of the Romanian people to which the Romanian Orthodox Church had a significant contribution.
The Romanian Patriarchate urges the Orthodox clergy to celebrate thanksgiving services to God and for remembering the authors of the Union of the Romanian Principalities in all the Romanian Orthodox eparchies in the country and abroad.
Patriarchate News
Anniversaries
17 May 1855 NICOLAE IVAN, Bishop of Cluj, was born in Aciliu, county of Sibiu
16 May 1898 Priest and professor of theology GALACTION LIVIU MUNTEANU was born in Cristian, county of Braşov
16 May 1859 Theology professor BADEA CIREŞEANU was born in Spineni, county of Olt
Memorials
18 May 1861 SOFRONIE MICLESCU, Metropolitan of Moldova, passed away at Slatina Monastery (buried at Neamţ)
18 May 1917 Bishop CALIST IALOMIŢEANU (baptised Constantin) passed away in Bucharest
17 May 2000 Metropolitan and historian NESTOR VORNICESCU (baptised Nicolae) passed away in Craiova






















