His Beatitude

The Cultural and Patrimony Counsellors of the Country Met the Patriarch of Romania

May 16, 2013 News

On 14 May 2013, His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church met at the Patriarchate Palace the counsellors of the cultural departments, as well as the persons in charge with church patrimony of the eparchies of the country. These days they participated in the regional workshop entitled the “Value and symbol-conservation, restoration and [...]

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Apostle Tomas Becomes a Confessor not only of the Resurrection of Christ, but also of His Divinity

May 16, 2013 Featured News

His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church explained in the sermon delivered on 14 April 2013 in the chapel of Saint Martyr George of the Patriarchal Residence the significance of the Evangelical Pericope of the 2nd Sunday after Easter, of Saint Evangelist John, chapter 20:10-31, presenting the appearance of Jesus Christ, our Lord, [...]

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Protocol of Collaboration between the Romanian Patriarchate and the Ministry for Agriculture and Rural Development

May 16, 2013 News

On 13 May 2013, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel and Minister Daniel Constantin signed at the Patriarchate Palace the Protocol of Collaboration between the Romanian Patriarchate and the Ministry for Agriculture and Rural Development for promoting the Romanian village. The purposes of the Protocol of collaboration between the Romanian Patriarchate and the Ministry for Agriculture and Rural Development are [...]

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The Patriarch of Romania Received the Visit of a Delegation of the Orthodox Church of Finland

May 10, 2013 Featured News

On 9 May 2013, His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of Romania received the visit of a delegation of the Orthodox Church of Finland. The delegation was headed by His Eminence Ambrozie, Metropolitan of Helsinki. During the meeting matters of common concern were discussed focused on the good collaboration in the confession of the Orthodox faith. “During [...]

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Romfea.gr: 16 months in prison

May 4, 2013 Featured News

4/5/13 On 1st May 2013, 16 months have passed since His Beatitude Archbishop Jovan of Ohrid and Metropolitan of Skopje is being held in the prisons of FYROMacedonia. And since we are not doing anything for this most worthy martyr Hierarch, who is praying while he is in chains for all of us, and even [...]

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The New Cathedral Will Be Like a Resurrection Candle

April 29, 2013 Featured News

  29/4/13 To end with the Vesper service celebrated on 27 April 2013, at the Cathedral for the Nation’s Salvation, the Patriarch of Romania explained in the sermon delivered that the new cathedral will be like a Resurrection candle and like a coming out of the humiliation the Church was sentenced to in many ways during [...]

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Palm Sunday Vespers at the Cathedral for the Nation’s Salvation

April 29, 2013 Featured News

On 27 April 2013, His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church celebrated the Vesper service united with the Litany on the platform of the Cathedral for the Nation’s Salvation. Besides the Patriarch of Romania, His Grace Varsanufie Prahoveanul, Assistant Bishop to the Archdiocese of Bucharest, also celebrated, assisted by a group of 12 [...]

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The counsellors for education and the directors of the theological seminaries met the Patriarch of Romania

April 29, 2013 Featured News

On 26th  April 2013, His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church met in Europa Christiana hall of the Patriarchate Palace the directors of theological and high schools seminaries, and the counsellors for education and youth activity, as well as the specialised inspectors of the Romanian Patriarchate. During the meeting His Beatitude spoke to [...]

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His Beatitude John X Al-Yazigi meets His Holiness Ignatius Zaka I Iwas

April 28, 2013 Featured News

27/4/13 Beirut: Greek-Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch, His Beatitude John X Al-Yazigi visited Syriac Orthodox Church His Holiness Ignatius Zaka I Iwas and discussed the developments of kidnapping the Metropolitan’s of the Holy Churches. Source:

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Primate of the Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia Retires

April 14, 2013 Featured News

14/3/13 On April 12, 2013, the Moscow Patriarchate received an official communication regarding the session of the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia that met that day. It reports that at that meeting His Beatitude, Christopher, Archbishop of Prague and Metropolitan of the Czech Lands and Slovakia, petitioned for [...]

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Holy Cross Sunday at the Chapel of the Cathedral for the Nation’s Salvation

April 12, 2013 Featured News

On 7 April 2013, the Orthodox Christians celebrate the Holy Cross Sunday. On this Sunday, the 3rd of the Lent, His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the chapel of the Cathedral for the Nation’s Salvation, assisted by a group of priests and deacons. The Patriarch of Romania [...]

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Promotions in the Chapel of the Patriarchal Residence

April 6, 2013 News

Romanian Orthodox Church On Friday, 5 April 2013, 26 priests of the Archdiocese of Bucharest were promoted to a higher rank. 10 hieromonks were promoted protosingelos, 14 priests became iconomos stavroforos and 2 priests were raised to the iconom rank. His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel celebrated the religious service related in the chapel of “Saint Great [...]

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23 years of the Patriarch of Romania as hierarch

March 26, 2013 Featured News

26/3/13 The Sunday of the victory of Orthodoxy over all heresies was celebrated with much devotion by many faithful who came to the Patriarchal Cathedral of Bucharest to attend the Divine Liturgy. On the first Sunday of the Lent when the victory of Orthodoxy over all heresies is celebrated, His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the [...]

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The Great Canon at the Patriarchal Cathedral

March 23, 2013 Featured News

On 18 March 2013, His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church celebrated the service of the canon of Saint Andrew of Crete in the Patriarchal Cathedral. The canon service began at 16.00 hours, in the Cathedral, with hundreds of faithful attending. Because we are during the Lent period, the Primate of our Church [...]

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The Patriarch of Romania Celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the Archiepiscopal Cathedral of Buzău

March 19, 2013 Featured News

On 17 March 2013, the Romanian Orthodox Church observed the Sunday of Adam’s banishment from the Garden of Eden. The evangelical pericope of Saint Evangelist Matthew, chapter 6:14-21, was read during the Divine Liturgy. During the sermon delivered in the chapel of the Patriarchal Residence of Saint Gregory the Enlightener, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel explained the teaching [...]

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The Patriarch of Romania Met the Counsellors of the Social-Philanthropic Departments of the Eparchies of the Country

March 19, 2013 News

On 15 March 2013, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel met at the Patriarchal Residence the representatives of the social-philanthropic departments of the eparchies of the Romanian Patriarchate. During the last few days they participated in the regional workshop organised in Bucharest on the Principles of the Philanthropic field – Principles of the social integration from Orthodox [...]

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Enthronement of the New Archbishop of Buzău and Vrancea

March 13, 2013 Featured News

On Sunday, 10 March 2013, His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church and Metropolitan of Muntenia and Dobrudgea enthroned His Eminence Ciprian as Archbishop of Buzău and Vrancea. After the celebration of the Divine Liturgy in the Archiepiscopal Cathedral of Buzău, assisted by a group of hierarchs, priests and deacons, His Beatitude Patriarch [...]

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The Patriarch of Romania at 23 years of hierarchal service

March 11, 2013 Featured News

On Monday, 4 March 2013, His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church celebrated 23 years since he was ordained hierarch. His Beatitude was ordained Bishop on 4 March 1990, on the Orthodoxy Sunday, in the Metropolitan Cathedral of Timişoara by His Eminence Nestor, Metropolitan of Oltenia, His Eminence Nicolae, Metropolitan of Banat, and [...]

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No material wealth can have the value of a saved soul

March 11, 2013 Featured News

On 3 March 2013, His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church delivered a sermon in the chapel of Saint Gregory the Enlightener of the Patriarchal Residence in which he explained the significance of the evangelical pericope of the 34th Sunday after the Pentecost, of Saint Evangelist Luke 15:11-32, presenting the return of the [...]

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Enthronement of Innokentios Bishop of Burundi and Rwanda

March 6, 2013 News

Alexandrian Patriarchate On 24th February 2013 His Beatitude Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, conducted the first Patriarchal Divine Liturgy in the Cathedral of the Dormition of the Theotokos in Bujumbura, together with His Eminence Jonah Metropolitan of Kampala and His Grace Innokentios Bishop of Burundi and Rwanda. Present at the [...]

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Church National Council Meeting at the Romanian Patriarchate

March 2, 2013 News

On 26 February 2013, the annual meeting of the Church National Council was held in the Synodal Hall of the Patriarchal Residence, under the chairmanship of His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church. Besides His Beatitude, His Grace Ciprian Câmpineanul, Assistant Bishop to the Patriarch, was also present. To start with the annual [...]

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Reconciliation between the Patriarchate of Jerusalem and the Romanian Patriarchate

February 23, 2013 Featured News

Jeruslame – Romanian Orthodox Patriarcates 23/2/12 With the blessing of His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, from 20th to 21st February 2013, a delegation of the Romanian Patriarchate met in Jerusalem with a delegation of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem, in order to solve the problem of the Romanian Settlement in Jericho. Following [...]

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Patriarch Theodore of Alexandria visits Russian vessel

February 22, 2013 Featured News

On 17 February 2013, His Beatitude Patriarch Theodore of Alexandria, currently on a missionary trip in Africa, celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the Greek church in Dar es Salaam, the largest city of Tanzania, on his Name Day, together with hierarchs and clerics of the Patriarchate of Alexandria. Attending the service were Orthodox Tanzanians, diplomats, [...]

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The Canaanite Woman Becomes a Teacher for us Due o her Deep Lowliness

February 19, 2013 Featured News

On 17 February 2013, the 17th Sunday after Pentecost, the Evangelical fragment on the Healing of the Canaanite woman’s daughter was read in all the Orthodox churches. In the sermon delivered in the chapel of the Patriarchal Residence with Saint Gregory the Enlightener as saint patron, His Beatitude emphasised the teaching of today’s evangelical pericope. [...]

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The Patriarch of Romania Celebrated the 40 Days Remembrance Service since the Passing away of Archbishop Epifanie

February 19, 2013 News

On 16 February 2013, His Eminence Epifanie was remembered in the Archiepiscopal Cathedral of the Ascension of the Lord of Buzau. The remembrance service was celebrated by His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, assisted by a group of hierarchs made up of His Eminence Metropolitan Nifon, Archbishop of Targoviste and Patriarchal Exarch, [...]

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