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Saint Nectarios of Aegina celebrated at Radu Voda Monastery in Bucharest

Radu Voda Monastery in Bucharest celebrated Wednesday, 9 November 2016, one of its protector saints, the Holy Hierarch Nectarios of Aegina. On this occasion, thousands of faithful came to pray and bow down before the relics of St Nectarios, Radio Trinitas informs. His Grace Varlaam of Ploieşti, Assistant Bishop to the Patriarch, celebrated the Divine…

Nov 11, 2016Aurelian Iftimiu

Thousands from Bucharest attend Way of the Saints Procession – 2016

Oct 22, 2016Aurelian Iftimiu

15,000 believers present at Divine Liturgy on the Feast of Pious Saint Paraskeva of Iași

Thousands of faithful from all across Romania participated Friday, 14 October 2016, in the Divine Liturgy, officiated in Iași on the Feast of Pious Saint Paraskeva the New. Representatives of state and local authorities also took part in the event. Other several thousands of believers stood in a three-kilometre line to get to bow down…

Oct 19, 2016Aurelian Iftimiu

Saint Anthimos the Ivirite honoured in Bucharest

Sep 27, 2016Robert Nicolae

Antioch, Romania and Georgia united in liturgical prayers. Saint Anthimos the Ivirite honoured in Bucharest (Video)

Hundreds of faithful were present at the Divine Liturgy officiated Tuesday, 27 September 2016, in Bucharest, on the feast of Hieromartyr Saint Anthimos the Ivirite. His Beatitude John X, Patriarch of Antioch and all East, His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of Romania, and Metropolitan John of Rustavi, representative of the Patriarch of Georgia, concelebrated. Several Antiochian,…

Sep 27, 2016Aurelian Iftimiu

Romanian Patriarch: “The Lamentations are an expectation of Christ’s Resurrection and a state of vigilance”

On the Great and Holy Friday, 29 April 2016, His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, officiated at the Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest the Matins of the Lamentations at the Tomb. Together with His Beatitude were present the Assistant Bishops to the Patriarch, Their Graces Varlaam of Ploiești and Ieronim of Sinaia, an…

Apr 30, 2016Aurelian Iftimiu

Only 37.9% of the places of worship built in Romania after 1989 belong to the Romanian Orthodox Church

The Romanian State Secretariat for Religious Affairs has recently published a centralized analysis regarding the number of places of worship in Romania, as at 31 December 2015. These statistics offer the possibility of a quantitative comparison between religious denominations and have the advantage of clarifying an aspect that has been more and more invoked as…

Apr 8, 2016Aurelian Iftimiu