Union of Bessarabia with Romania

Romanian PM Ilie Bolojan honours Bessarabia Union leaders at Cernica Monastery

Romanian Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan on Thursday attended a commemorative event at Cernica Monastery marking 108 years since the Union of Bessarabia with Romania. In a post on his official Facebook page, the head of government highlighted the significance of the 1918 event: “The Act of Union, adopted in Chișinău, was the first cornerstone laid…

Mar 27, 2026Aurelian Iftimiu

Busts of Bessarabia-Romania Union artisans unveiled in Ialoveni

Last week, His Eminence Metropolitan Petru and officials from both sides of the Prut River unveiled the busts of two great artisans of the Union of Bessarabia with Romania, Alexandru Marghiloman and Ion Inculeț. The ceremony on Monday, March 27, 2023, marked the 105th anniversary of the Union of Bessarabia with the Kingdom of Romania.…

Apr 3, 2023Aurelian Iftimiu

Bessarabia-Romania Union founders commemorated at Bucharest Patriarchal Cathedral

On Monday, the patriarchal auxiliary bishop Varlaam of Ploiesti officiated a memorial service at the patriarchal cathedral in Bucharest in honour of the founders of the Union of Bessarabia with the Kingdom of Romania. Bishop Varlaam recalled that “today we mark 105 years since the members of the Country’s Council in Chisinau voted the Union…

Mar 28, 2023Aurelian Iftimiu

Metropolitan Petru’s message on 105th anniversary of Bessarabia-Romanian Unification: True union comes through faith in God

In a message marking the 105th anniversary of the Union of Bessarabia with Romania, His Eminence Metropolitan Petru of Bessarabia recalled that the Act of Union, adopted by the Country’s Council on March 27, 1918, represented not only a national achievement but also an act of faith and aspiration towards a prosperous future. “In a…

Mar 28, 2023Aurelian Iftimiu

Southern Bessarabia Bishop Veniamin remembers founders of Bessarabia’s 1918 Union with Romania

On the 104th anniversary of the Union of Bessarabia with Romania, Bishop Veniamin of Southern Bessarabia celebrated the Divine Liturgy at Saint Spyridon Metropolitan Cathedral in Bucharest. During the Divine Liturgy, the bishop remembered the founders of the Union of March 27, 1918, stressing that “they understood what it means to carry the Cross with…

Apr 1, 2022Aurelian Iftimiu

Let us remain confident that we can survive in one Romanian breath: Metropolitan Petru of Bessarabia

In a message occasioned by the 103rd anniversary of the Union of Bessarabia with Romania, on March 27, 2021, His Eminence Metropolitan Petru stressed that the example of the forerunners who accomplished the Union in 1918 “encourages us to remain steadfast and confident, that we can last forever in one Romanian breath, despite the (hopefully…

Mar 29, 2021Aurelian Iftimiu

Metropolitan Petru calls for prayer for founders of Bessarabia’s Union with Romania

The Metropolitan of Bessarabia urged ‘all those who feel Romanian to intensify their prayers’ and remember the founders of the historical event of March 27, 1918, when the region united with the Kingdom of Romania. In his message marking the 102nd anniversary of the Union of Bessarabia with Romania, Metropolitan Petru recalled the important role…

Apr 2, 2020Aurelian Iftimiu

Patriarch Daniel attends Parliament joint sitting to mark 100th anniversary of Bessarabia’s Union with Romania

His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel attended Tuesday the solemn sitting of the two chambers of Romania’s Parliament to mark the 100th anniversary of the Union of Bessarabia with the Mother Land. Romania’s Parliament endorsed a Declaration for the celebration of the Union between Bessarabia and the Mother Land, Romania, in 1918. “The Romanian Parliament constituted in…

Apr 3, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

Romanian Academy: Patriarch Daniel offers two Romanian Saints as symbol of 1918 Great Union

During the scientific session in remembrance of the 100th anniversary of Bessarabia’s Union with Romania that took place on 27 March 1918, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel spoke at the Romanian Academy about the newly-glorified Romanian Saints Joseph the Merciful and George the Pilgrim, offering them as a symbol of the 1918 Great Union. ‘Two Romanian…

Mar 27, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

Founders of the Union of Bessarabia with Romania commemorated at the Patriarchal Cathedral

On the 99th anniversary of the proclamation of the Union of Bessarabia with the Kingdom of Romania, the founders of the Union were commemorated Saturday at the Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest. The V. Rev. Archimandrite Veniamin Goreanu, patriarchal adviser at the Office of the Holy Synod, conducted the memorial service on 25 March 2017. Archimandrite…

Mar 27, 2017Aurelian Iftimiu