Archbishop Casian

Local proclamation of Saint Maria Brâncoveanu: Churches she supported receive reliquary icons

The local proclamation of Saint Maria Brâncoveanu’s canonisation took place on Sunday at the New St George Church in Bucharest. Churches founded or supported by the saint received icons containing a fragment of her holy relics. These included the St Nicholas “Dintr-o Zi” Church in Bucharest, the monasteries of Hurezi, Surpatele and Dintr-un Lemn in…

Aug 19, 2026Aurelian Iftimiu

Hierarchs celebrate patronal feast at Halmyris Monastery, site of Saints Epictetus and Astion’s martyrdom

Archbishop Casian of the Lower Danube and Bishop Visarion of Tulcea celebrated the Divine Liturgy on Wednesday at Halmyris Monastery in Tulcea County on the patronal feast of Saints Epictetus and Astion. Archbishop Casian highlighted the decisive role the witness of the two holy martyrs played in the spread of Christianity, noting that “through their…

Jul 9, 2026Aurelian Iftimiu

Romanian Orthodox archdiocese offers Braille New Testaments to visually impaired faithful

Thirty visually impaired people from Galați received parcels containing essential food items and copies of the New Testament in Braille on Sunday from the Archdiocese of Lower Danube. The initiative followed the Divine Liturgy celebrated by Archbishop Casian at the Archdiocesan Cathedral in Galați. Spiritual enrichment The Archbishop of Lower Danube highlighted the day’s spiritual…

May 19, 2026Aurelian Iftimiu

Archbishop Casian honours world champion robotics team from Brăila

“The students told us that they feel the presence of God in everything,” said Archbishop Casian of the Lower Danube during a festive event organised on Tuesday in honour of the “Velocity” robotics team from Brăila, world champions at the FIRST Tech Challenge held in the United States. The event took place at the Museum…

May 14, 2026Aurelian Iftimiu

Archbishop Casian prays with people with disabilities in Galați, calls for compassion and solidarity

His Eminence Archbishop Casian of the Lower Danube joined people with disabilities in prayer on Sunday at the Archdiocesan Cathedral in Galați. The Archbishop emphasised the importance of solidarity, inspired by the Gospel of the Healing of the Paralysed Man at Bethesda: “Being constantly people among people, so that no one today may complain of…

May 5, 2026Aurelian Iftimiu

Lower Danube Archbishop commemorates victims of communist labour camp at Salcia

Archbishop Casian Crăciun of Lower Danube on Monday commemorated the martyrs of the Salcia labour camp in the Great Brăila Island, where hundreds of anti-communist political prisoners died in suffering. The memorial service was held in connection with the feast of the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste and Romania’s National Day of Remembrance for anti-communist political…

Mar 13, 2026Aurelian Iftimiu

Each of us is a priest of love for our neighbor, Archbishop Casian says as Nativity Fast begins

“Each of us is a priest of love for our neighbor, the outstretched hands of the Savior Jesus Christ,” His Eminence Archishop Casian of Lower Danube said at the beginning of the Nativity Fast. “The Holy Church sends us now, at the beginning of the fasting season, a sweet, pastoral word, just as bees go…

Nov 19, 2024Aurelian Iftimiu

Patriarchal Cathedral patronal feast: Christian freedom stands on love, sacrifice, and the help of God

Archbishop Casian of Lower Danube spoke on Tuesday at the historic patronal feast of the Patriarchal Cathedral about Saint Constantine the Great’s decision to cease persecutions and establish “Christian freedom.” “Not just any kind of freedom,” His Eminence said, “but a freedom based on love, sacrifice, and the help of God, both for the earthly leader and…

May 23, 2024Aurelian Iftimiu

Nobody asks us to walk barefoot like Saint Demetrius, but let us stop trampling on souls, Abp Casian says

“I would like to meditate together tonight, dear brothers and sisters, on a shocking event in the life of Saint Demetrius,” the Archbishop of the Lower Danube wrote on Facebook on Tuesday evening. St. Demetrius, when he was a shepherd, accidentally trampled a baby bird. And he repented so much that all his life he…

Oct 28, 2021Aurelian Iftimiu

HE Archbishop Casian: Prayer in communion transformed Princely Ave into a great Cathedral

The relics of Virginmartyr Saint Philotheia were brought Sunday, 27 November 2016, from Curtea de Argeş to Galaţi by a delegation of the Archdiocese of Argeş and Muscel, led by His Eminence Archbishop Calinic. His Eminence Casian, Archbishop of Lower Danube, welcomed the relics of the Virginmartyr at the University of Lower Danube, together with…

Nov 29, 2016Aurelian Iftimiu