Bible Day

Over 7,500 students in Suceava read the entire Bible in one hour on Romanian Bible Day

On the occasion of Romanian Bible Day, more than 7,500 young people from Suceava County read the entire Holy Scripture as part of a project organised by the County School Inspectorate and the Archdiocese of Suceava and Rădăuți. The reading groups from Suceava were joined by others from Bucharest and the counties of Bacău, Brașov,…

Nov 15, 2025Aurelian Iftimiu

Romanian Orthodox Church: Day of Bible promotes better knowledge of the Holy Scriptures

The Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church established in 2006 the Day of the Bible, to be marked yearly on November 13. The goal was to remind the faithful of their duty to read the Holy Scriptures. The Church celebrates on the same day St. John Chrysostom, who is considered the greatest interpreter of the…

Nov 13, 2021Ștefana Totorcea

Husi Bishop says we should be addicted to the Bible like we are to our smartphones

‘It would be wonderful if the dependence on the word of God were at least directly proportional to the addiction to our smartphone,’ wrote Wednesday His Grace Bishop Ignatie of Husi on his Instagram account marking the Bible Day. He stressed that we are in ‘the age of word inflation,’ an inflation which lacks the…

Nov 14, 2019Aurelian Iftimiu

For our spiritual life we need to read at least a Bible chapter a day – Metropolitan Andrei

In a message occasioned by the Bible Day observed by the Romanian Orthodox Church on Nov. 13, Metropolitan Andrei of Cluj, Maramureș and Sălaj urged the faithful to read at least a Bible chapter a day for a healthy spirituality. ‘We have at hand prayer, the participation in the Divine Liturgy and at church services,…

Nov 14, 2019Aurelian Iftimiu