'We thank God and the people God works through', Patriarch Daniel said during the festive meeting held 28 September at the Romanian Saints Hall of the patriarchal residence in Bucharest. On 30 September 2017, His Beatitude Daniel celebrates his 10th anniversary of the enthronement as Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church. The first event to mark this anniversary was the festive meeting chaired by the Patriarch on Sept. 28. The meeting was attended by Their Graces Ieronim of Sinaia, Assist...

On Sunday, 1 October 2017, on the day of Saint Eumenius of Gortin and Holy Martyr Aryadna, before the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy in the Cathedral church of the Ascension of the Most Holy Mother of God in Šibenik, the newly nominated Bishop Nikodim of Dalmatia presented his Confession of Orthodox faith by answering questions put by His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch, and hierarchs. Priests, monks and pious people assembled in the prayer, were listening admiringly to the new bishop and spiritu...

On October 5, the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church held its working session at the Synodal Hall of the Patriarchal Residence in Bucharest. During the session chaired by His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel, the Holy Synod rendered the following decisions: The Holy Synod glorified Metropolitan Joseph Naniescu, with the name of Saint Joseph the Merciful, Metropolitan of Moldavia, with his feast day to be commemorated on January 26. Weiterlesen auf basilica.ro (6. Oktober 2017)

During the working session of the Holy Synod, chaired on 5 October by His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel, the members of the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church elected by a majority vote the new Bishop of Huşi. Last weekend, the Metropolitan Synod (Episcopal Assembly) of Moldavia and Bukovina proposed two candidates for the Diocese of Huşi: His Grace Ignatie of Mureş, Assistant Bishop to the Romanian Orthodox Diocese of Spain and Portugal. Weiterlesen auf basilica.ro (5. Oktober 2017)

Der gehässige Kommentar eines kroatischen Geistlichen zum Tod von Slavko Goldstein hat in Kroatien für Empörung gesorgt. Der Schriftsteller und Publizist Goldstein galt als einer der wichtigsten und einflussreichsten Intellektuellen Kroatiens. Aus einer jüdischen Familie stammend, hatte er als Jugendlicher den Zweiten Weltkrieg überlebt, aber zahlreiche Familienmitglieder, darunter seinen Vater, verloren. Zeit seines Lebens bezog er gegen Faschismus und Nationalismus Position und sich auch ni...

Newly elected Bishop Fotije of Zvornik-Tuzla was enthroned at the Cathedral church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God in Bijeljina on 17 September 2017. (phоto gallery). His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch, officiated the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy with the concelebration of Archbishop of Ohrid and Metropolitan of Skopje Jovan, Metropolitan Porfirije of Zagreb-Ljubljana and Hrizostom of Dabar-Bosnia and Bishops: Fotije of Zvornik-Tuzla, Vasilije of Srem, Nikanor of Banat, Irinej o...

Zum 20. Todestag von Mutter Teresa (1910–1997) ist die Kathedrale in Prishtina der Ordensgründerin und Friedensnobelpreisträgerin geweiht worden. Die 2010 geweihte Kathedrale in der kosovarischen Hauptstadt heißt nun – ein Jahr nach der Heiligsprechung von Mutter Teresa – offiziell „Mutter-Teresa-Kathedrale“. Es ist das erste Gotteshaus, das der albanischen Heiligen gewidmet ist. Neben zahlreichen Gläubigen nahmen auch viele religiöse Führungspersönlichkeiten und Präsident Hashim Thaçi an den...

On the feast-day of the Synaxis of All Serbian Saints Bishop Sergije of Bihać-Petrovac was enthroned in the Cathedral church of Holy Apostles Peter and Paul. His Eminence Metropolitan Porfirije of Zagreb-Ljubljana officiated the solemn Hierarchal Liturgy with the concelebration of Their Graces Bishops: Sergije of Bihać-Petrovac, Pahomije of Vranje, Jovan of Šumadija, Fotije of Dalmatia and elected of Zvornik and Tuzla; Atanasije of Mileševa, Joanikije of Budimlje-Nikšić, Marko of Bregalnica, ...

Der neue serbisch-orthodoxe Metropolit von Dabar-Bosna, Hrizostom (Jević), ist am Sonntag in der orthodoxen Marienkathedrale in Sarajevo feierlich in sein Amt eingeführt worden. Patriarch Irinej war der Hauptzelebrant der Göttlichen Liturgie. Zahlreiche serbische Bischöfe (auch aus der Diaspora) konzelebrierten, ebenso war der Metropolit von Mytilene, Jakovos (Frantsis), unter den Konzelebranten. Die Wahlurkunde wurde von Metropolit Porfirije (Perić) von Zagreb verlesen. Der aus Bosanski Petr...