Bucharest Archdiocese

Romanian Orthodox clergy discuss challenges facing Christian family at Bucharest conference

Priests from the Archdiocese of Bucharest highlighted contemporary challenges facing the Christian family during the spring pastoral-missionary conference held on Monday at the Patriarchal Palace in Bucharest. The event opened with a Te Deum service celebrated by Patriarchal Auxiliary Bishop Varlaam of Ploiești at the Metropolitan Cathedral of St Spyridon the New in Bucharest. The…

May 25, 2026Aurelian Iftimiu

Bucharest Archdiocese offers clothing items, school supplies to over 14,000 students

At the start of the 2022–2023 school year, 14,138 students were sponsored by the Archdiocese of Bucharest. The aid consisted of backpacks with school supplies, textbooks, clothes and shoes worth 276,247 EUR (1,364,023 lei). The clergy and employees in charge of social aid in the diocese carried out charitable deeds. Priest Ionuţ Tutea, who coordinates…

Oct 11, 2022Aurelian Iftimiu

Bucharest deaf community celebrates patron saint. “They are open, welcoming and receptive”

Because he was forced to express himself using signs to confess the Holy Trinity at the Second Ecumenical Council, when one of the heretics covered his mouth, the Holy Hierarch Meletius of Antioch, celebrated on February 12, is considered the patron saint of the hearing impaired and deaf people. The deaf community of the Archdiocese…

Feb 15, 2022Aurelian Iftimiu

Bucharest Archdiocese offers hospital chapels as morgues for Covid-19 patients

As morgues struggle to cope with the high numbers of virus deaths, the Romanian Orthodox Church has offered hospital chapels in Bucharest to serve this purpose. The Archdiocese of Bucharest said it would make available outside chapels at hospitals and chapels at cemeteries to help with the rising number of deaths. Press release Following the…

Oct 28, 2021Aurelian Iftimiu

Bucharest Archdiocese, Prahova Probation Service sign agreement to help convicts reintegrate socially

Following on a number of agreements with local probation services, the Archdiocese of Bucharest of the Romanian Orthodox Church is actively assisting convicts in the process of social reintegration. The Archdiocese signed an agreement with the Bucharest Probation Service and the Ilfov County Probation Service in December, and on Monday, October 4, it signed another…

Oct 6, 2021Aurelian Iftimiu

Children’s Day in the Archdiocese of Bucharest: Hundreds of children received gifts from Patriarch Daniel

Patriarch Daniel sent on Monday consistent gifts for 280 children from the Archdiocese of Bucharest. Beneficiaries were the 40 children who receive social support at the eparchy’s “St Sophia” Day Care Center and the children of clerics who serve in rural parishes of the second and third category. The packages contained sports equipment, games, sweets…

Jun 3, 2021Ștefana Totorcea

Bucharest Archdiocese spends EUR 2 mln on medical equipment, humanitarian aid in 2020

The Archdiocesan Assembly of the Archdiocese of Bucharest convened at the Palace of the Romanian Patriarchate to review last year’s activity and set new priorities for 2021. The activity slowed down compared to previous years, as a consequence of the pandemic restrictions. Nevertheless, most of the administrative-pastoral, economic-patrimonial, cultural-missionary and educational activities were continued. The…

Feb 17, 2021Ștefana Totorcea

Bucharest Archdiocese tailor shops make disposable coveralls for volunteers who help the vulnerable

Church-affiliated volunteers who help vulnerable persons during the coronavirus crisis will receive disposable coveralls made by the tailor shops of the Archdiocese of Bucharest. According to a statement by the Social-Philanthropic Department of the Romanian Patriarchate on Monday, the Archdiocese’s tailor workshop ‘Reverenda’ and the embroidery workshop ‘Altarul’ have already made 30 disposable gowns. They…

Apr 8, 2020Aurelian Iftimiu

4 Year Anniversary: Ceremony to remember Colectiv club fire victims

The 4th anniversary of a fire that killed 64 and wounded 147 at the Colectiv club in Bucharest in 2015 will be marked by a memorial service organized by the Archdiocese of Bucharest on Wednesday, October 30, 2019. The service will be officiated at St Nicholas – Broșteni church in Bucharest. The liturgical program includes…

Oct 29, 2019Aurelian Iftimiu

Patriarch Daniel chairs Monastic Assembly of Bucharest Archdiocese

His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel chaired the Monastic Assembly of the Archdiocese of Bucharest at the Patriarchate’s Palace on Thursday, October 10, 2019. In his opening remarks, the Patriarch explained the five dimensions of this year’s Assembly including liturgical, cultural, missionary, practical and hospitable aspects. The liturgical dimension refers to the participation of monastics in the…

Oct 14, 2019Aurelian Iftimiu

Bucharest Archdiocese gives $1,000+ to family of newly-reposed priest

The Archdiocese of Bucharest decided, at the initiative of His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel, to provide financial support to Fr. Marius’ grieving family. The Archdiocese is providing $1,184 (5,000 lei) to Fr. Marius’ wife and children. Fr. Marius Gabriel Bărăscu of Parava, Bacău County, 160 miles northeast of Bucharest, tragically died in a car accident last week,…

Aug 12, 2019Gheorghe Anghel