National Cathedral in Bucharest to be consecrated on 25 November
100 years after the Great Union of all Romanians within the borders of one single State, and only one month before the country will take over the rotation presidency of the EU, Bucharest will see its National Cathedral consecrated, on Sunday, 25 November 2018. Strange as it may seem for a European nation, the Romanian Orthodox Church, the majority church of Romanians, did not, until now, dispose of a cathedral in Bucharest. The building currently playing the role of Patriarch
ROMANIA 100 - EUROPEAN CULTURE: Romania's 100th anniversary, celebrated in Brussels
The Romanian centenary was celebrated, on Thursday, 8 November 2018, in the Dominican Abbey in Brussels, through a magnificent concert of classical music performed by the Transylvanian Quartet, from Cluj-Napoca. The event was attended by EU officials, diplomats, religious representatives to the EU, as well as members and friends of the Romanian community in Belgium. In the opening of the concert, His Eminence Metropolitan Joseph, the Vice-President of the Representation of th
Pontifical Divine Liturgy in Brussels on the feast of the Holy Angels
The feast of Saints Archangels Michael, Gabriel and Raphael was celebrated this Thursday, November 8th 2019, at the Saint Nicholas Romanian Orthodox Church, in Brussels. The parish community enjoyed the presence of His Eminence Jospeh, the Romanian Orthodox Metropolitan of Western and Southern Europe, who celebrated the Divine Liturgy together with the priests and deacons of the parish. In the homily, His Eminence mentioned the close link between the archangels and our salvat
