Transylvania

King Charles III honoured in Romania with photo album showcasing his connection to Transylvania

On the occasion of the King’s Birthday celebration in the United Kingdom, a new photo album titled “The Royal Paths of Transylvania” was launched in Bucharest, highlighting King Charles III’s deep connection with Romania.  The album was presented on Saturday during the opening ceremony of an exhibition of the same name, which was hosted at…

Jun 17, 2025Aurelian Iftimiu

Saint Nicholas declared patron saint of Transylvanian city of Huedin

Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker was proclaimed the patron saint of Huedin, a city in Transylvania, at a ceremony held last week at the local cathedral. Following the solemn Divine Liturgy for Saint Nicholas’ feast on December 6, the dean of Huedin, Rev. Dan Luputan, read out the decree by which Metropolitan Andrei of Cluj approved…

Dec 12, 2023basilica.ro

The Week in Pictures: January 3 – 9, 2022

Theophany according to the revised calendar and the Lord’s Nativity according to the unrevised calendar have brought joy to Orthodox Christians these days. Please find below our Week in Pictures selection for January 3 – 9. Last week’s most-liked Instagram photo:   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Basilica News Agency…

Jan 11, 2022Ștefana Totorcea

Transylvanian priest offers his parish house to a family with 8 children

Father Ionuț Timoce, a Transylvanian parish priest, offered his parish house to family with eight children recently left homeless after the owner ended their tenancy by selling the house. Reghin Deanery got involved in providing a home to the Balazs family. The eight children are aged 4 to 18, their father is a taxi driver…

Dec 23, 2021Ștefana Totorcea

10th anniversary of the Canonization of Saint Andrew Șaguna: Thanks to him, Transylvania remained in Apostle Andrew’s faith

The Holy Hierarch Andrei Şaguna, the founder of the Metropolis of Transylvania, was celebrated during a Divine Liturgy in Sibiu on Tuesday. This year marks ten years since the canonization of Saint Andrew Şaguna, whose relics are kept at the Orthodox Cathedral in Sibiu. Thanks to him, Transylvania remained in the faith of the Apostle…

Dec 3, 2021Aurelian Iftimiu

Romania’s Transylvania, on National Geographic’s list of destinations on the rise for 2021

For families increasingly tethered to technology, a future farm stay here would be a chance to unplug, to spend time instead traveling by horse-drawn cart, hiking in the wooded Carpathian Mountains, and helping with chores like milking sheep, collecting eggs, and piling haystacks, says National Geographic about a future holiday in Transylvania in an article…

Nov 20, 2020Aurelian Iftimiu

Metropolitan of Transylvania urges believers to attend Romanian referendum for the definition of marriage

Metropolitan Laurenţiu of Transylvania has urged believers of all confessions to attend the referendum for the definition of marriage, Agerpres reported. The referendum, scheduled for October 7, aims to change the definition of marriage in the Constitution from the current marriage between spouses to the marriage between a man and a woman. The metropolitan argued that turnout…

Sep 18, 2018Gheorghe Anghel

The Orthodox Youth event of the year: International Meeting for ‘Unity. Faith. Nation’ at Sibiu

‘Unity. Faith. Nation’ is the motto under which 2,500 young people from Romania and abroad will meet in Sibiu during the fifth edition of the International Meeting of Orthodox Youth (ITO) on 6-9 September 2018. The ITO 2018 event was launched officially at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Sibiu, on the International Day of Orthodox Youth,…

Feb 7, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

Romanian Patriarchate declares 2018 Solemn Year of Unity of Faith and Nation, Commemorative Year of the 1918 Great Union Founders

At the end of St Basil’s Divine Liturgy celebrated Monday at the Patriarchal Cathedral, His Grace Patriarchal Auxiliary Bishop Varlaam of Ploiesti read out the synodal document by which the Romanian Patriarchate officially declares 2018 Solemn Year of the Unity of Faith and Nation, and Commemorative Year of the 1918 Great Union Founders. Attending the…

Jan 2, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu