Sunday of Orthodoxy

Photo Gallery | Holy Icons carried in procession on Sunday of Orthodoxy at Icoanei Church, Bucharest

His Grace Bishop Timotei of Prahova celebrated the Divine Liturgy at Icoanei Church in Bucharest on the Sunday of Orthodoxy, March 17, 2019. Following the Divine Liturgy, clergy, local officials and thousands of believers took to the streets carrying holy icons in a procession to Icoanei Park. Photo courtesy of Basilica.ro / Raluca Ene

Mar 18, 2019Raluca-Emanuela Ene

‘I post as many pictures as possible, therefore I am’: Holy Synod warns against idolatry on social media

The Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church cautioned that in the ‘era of videocracy’ social networks give birth to idolatrous, narcissistic tendencies, they weaken human communion, and the human person is not valued at true value as icon or image of God. In their pastoral letter for the Sunday of Orthodoxy, the Romanian hierarchs…

Mar 14, 2019Aurelian Iftimiu

In pictures: Patriarch Daniel celebrates Divine Liturgy on Sunday of Orthodoxy 2018

His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel of Romania presided over the hierarchical Divine Liturgy celebrated at the Patriarchal Cathedral on the Sunday of Orthodoxy, having His Grace Bishop Varlaam of Ploiesti as concelebrant. Fotocredit: Robert Nicolae/Basilica.ro

Mar 20, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

Greek President receives highest decoration of Greek Orthodox Church

At the end of the Divine Liturgy celebrated on the Sunday of Orthodoxy by His Beatitude Archbishop Hieronymos at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Athens, the President of the Republic of Greece, Prokopis Pavlopoulos, was awarded the highest decoration of the Greek Orthodox Church, the Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Paul the Apostle. Athens…

Mar 1, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

In pictures: Ecumenical Patriarchate celebrates 1175th Sunday of Orthodoxy

His Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Sunday presided over the Divine Liturgy celebrated at the St George Patriarchal Cathedral at the Phanar in Constantinople, the city where Orthodox hierarchs gathered in a Holy Synod and restored holy icons for the use in services and private devotional life of Christians after a century-long ecclesiastical differences. Bishop Adrian…

Feb 27, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

‘Holy icons are the full profession of true faith in the Church,’ Patriarch Daniel says on Sunday of Orthodoxy

On the first Sunday of Great Lent, also called the Sunday of Orthodoxy, Patriarch Daniel pointed to the importance of holy icons in the Orthodox Church. They are not ‘a mere adornment in the church, but rather the full profession of the true faith in the Church: witness through words and witness through sight, because…

Feb 26, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

Patriarch Daniel on Sunday of Orthodoxy: Through icons, we profess true faith

Orthodoxy is not only true but also beautiful, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel said Sunday addressing the faithful present at the Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest. The Patriarch of Romania said that the Sunday of Orthodoxy commemorated on March 5 is not only the Sunday of true faith but also the Sunday we commemorate the imperishable beauty of the…

Mar 6, 2017Aurelian Iftimiu