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Metropolis Of Muntenia And Dobruja
The Metropolis of Wallachia and Dobruja, headquartered in Bucharest, Romania, is a metropolis of the Romanian Orthodox Church. History The Metropolis of Ungro-Wallachia was established in 1359 by Callistus I, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, encompassing the territory of Wallachia. In 1872, the Metropolis of Ungro-Wallachia united with the Metropolis of Moldavia to form the Romanian Orthodox Church. The Metropolis of Ungro-Wallachia, who received the title of Primate Metropolitan in 1865, became the head of the General Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church. In 1990, it became Metropolis of Muntenia and Dobruja. List of metropolitans * Maxim (1508–1512) * Macarie II (1512–1521) * Ilarion II (1521–1523) ** ''vacancy'' (1523–1525) * Teodor II (1525–1533) * Mitrofan I (1533–1535) * Varlaam I (1535–1544) * Anania (1544–1558) * Efrem (1558–1566) * Danil I (1566) ** ''vacancy'' (1566–1568) * Eftimie I (1568–1576) * Serafim (1576–1586) * Mihail I (15 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romanian Patriarchal Cathedral, The Patriarchal Palace
Romanian may refer to: *anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Romania **Romanians, an ethnic group **Romanian language, a Romance language ***Romanian dialects, variants of the Romanian language **Romanian cuisine, traditional foods **Folklore of Romania, Romanian folklore *''The Romanian: Story of an Obsession'', a 2004 novel by Bruce Benderson *''Românul'' (), a newspaper published in Bucharest, Romania, 1857–1905 See also * * {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metropolis Of Muntenia And Dobruja
The Metropolis of Wallachia and Dobruja, headquartered in Bucharest, Romania, is a metropolis of the Romanian Orthodox Church. History The Metropolis of Ungro-Wallachia was established in 1359 by Callistus I, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, encompassing the territory of Wallachia. In 1872, the Metropolis of Ungro-Wallachia united with the Metropolis of Moldavia to form the Romanian Orthodox Church. The Metropolis of Ungro-Wallachia, who received the title of Primate Metropolitan in 1865, became the head of the General Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church. In 1990, it became Metropolis of Muntenia and Dobruja. List of metropolitans * Maxim (1508–1512) * Macarie II (1512–1521) * Ilarion II (1521–1523) ** ''vacancy'' (1523–1525) * Teodor II (1525–1533) * Mitrofan I (1533–1535) * Varlaam I (1535–1544) * Anania (1544–1558) * Efrem (1558–1566) * Danil I (1566) ** ''vacancy'' (1566–1568) * Eftimie I (1568–1576) * Serafim (1576–1586) * Mihail I (15 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History Of Christianity In Romania
The history of Christianity in Romania began within the Roman province of Lower Moesia, where many Christians were martyred at the end of the 3rd century. Evidence of Christian communities has been found in the territory of modern Romania at over a hundred archaeological sites from the 3rd and 4th centuries. However, sources from the 7th and 10th centuries are so scarce that Christianity seems to have diminished during this period. The vast majority of Romanians are adherent to the Eastern Orthodox Church, while most other populations that speak Romance languages follow the Catholic Church. The basic Christian terminology in Romanian language, Romanian is of Latin origin, though the Romanians, referred to as Vlachs in medieval sources, borrowed numerous South Slavic languages, South Slavic terms due to the adoption of the liturgy officiated in Old Church Slavonic. The earliest Romanian translations of religious texts appeared in the 15th century, and Bucharest Bible of 1688, the fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patriarch Daniel Of Romania
Daniel (; born Dan Ilie Ciobotea on 22 July 1951) is the Patriarch of All Romania, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church. The elections took place on 12 September 2007. Daniel won with a majority of 95 votes out of 161 against Bartolomeu Anania. He was officially enthroned on 30 September 2007 in the Romanian Patriarchal Cathedral, Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest. As such, his official title is "Archbishop of Bucharest, Metropolitan of Muntenia and Dobrogea, Locum tenens of the throne of Caesarea of Cappadocia, Patriarch of All Romania". Biography Daniel Ciobotea was born in the village of Dobrești, Bara, Timiș, Bara Commune, Timiș County, as the third son in the family of teacher Alexie and Stela Ciobotea. He followed the Education in Romania, Primary School in his home village (1958–1962) and the Education in Romania, Gymnasium in Lăpușnic village (1962–1966), Timiș County. In 1966 he began the High School courses in Buziaș, which he then continued in Lugoj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teoctist Arăpașu
Teoctist (, born Toader Arăpașu, 7 February 1915 – 30 July 2007) was the Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church from 1986 to 2007. Teoctist served his first years as patriarch under the Communist Romania, Romanian Communist regime, and was accused by some of collaborationism, collaboration. He offered his resignation after the Romanian Revolution of 1989, but was soon restored to office and served a further 17 years. A promoter of Ecumenism, ecumenical dialogue, Patriarch Teoctist invited Pope John Paul II to visit Romania in 1999. It was the first visit of a Pope to a predominantly Eastern Orthodox country since the East-West Schism of 1054. Studies and ecclesiastic career He was born as the tenth of eleven children of Dumitru and Marghioala Arăpașu, of Stăuceni, Botoșani, Tocileni, Botoșani County. He attended the primary school in Tocileni (1921–1927). In 1928, Arăpașu became a novice at Vorona Monastery, Sihăstria Voronei Hermitage (religious retreat), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iustin Moisescu
Iustin Moisescu (; March 5, 1910 – July 31, 1986) was Patriarch of All Romania, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church from 1977 to 1986. Biography Theological preparation Moisescu was born in Albeștii de Muscel, Cândești, Argeș County. He studied at the war orphans’ seminary in Câmpulung-Muscel from 1922 to 1930, finishing with top honours. Patriarch Miron Cristea selected him alone, of all 1930 seminary graduates, to receive a scholarship and take his licentiate in theology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, University of Athens. In 1934, he returned to Romania, having received a degree “arista” (magna cum laude). Cristea, following Moisescu's progress, sent him (upon the recommendation of the University of Athens and of the Romanian Embassy in Greece) to continue his advanced studies at the Faculty of Roman Catholic Theology at the Marc Bloch University, Université des Sciences Humaines in Strasbourg. After two years in France (1934� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justinian Marina
Justinian Marina (; born Ioan Marina ; February 2, 1901 – March 26, 1977) was a Romanian Orthodox prelate. He was the third patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, serving between 1948 and 1977. Parish priest in the Râmnic Diocese Ioan Marina was born in the village of Suieşti, in the former commune of Cermegeşti, Vâlcea County, to a family of farmers. As his mother wanted him to become a priest and he had a natural tendency toward learning, in 1915 he entered the St. Nicholas Theological Seminary in Râmnicu Vâlcea. He graduated in 1923, that year also obtaining a teacher's diploma, after taking an examination at the Normal School in the same city. He began his social work on September 1, 1923, as a teacher at the primary school in Olteanca, Vâlcea County. A year later, on September 1, 1924, he was transferred, also as a teacher, to the primary school in Băbeni, Vâlcea County (then a commune, now a town). Then, on October 14, 1924, he married Lucreţia Pop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicodim Munteanu
Nicodim (), born Nicolae Munteanu (; 6 December 1864, Pipirig, Neamț County, Romania – 27 February 1948, Bucharest), was the head of the Romanian Orthodox Church (Patriarch of All Romania) between 1939 and 1948. Biography He studied theology at the Kiev-Mohyla Academy, Russian Empire and became a monk at Neamț Monastery in 1894. Nicodim was supportive of the King and the royal family and a notable anti-Communist, refusing to give support for the Soviet-backed Communist regime in the process of installation in Romania in 1945–1947. Immediately, rumors circulated to the effect that he had been murdered, perhaps with Soviet approval. However, all available evidence indicates the patriarch died of natural causes. Adrian Cioroianu, ''Focul ascuns în piatră'', p. 310. Bucharest: Editura Polirom, 2002, Nicodim Munteanu was buried at the Romanian Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest, next to the first Patriarch of Romania Miron Cristea Miron Cristea (; monastic name of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miron Cristea
Miron Cristea (; monastic name of Elie Cristea ; 20 July 1868 – 6 March 1939) was a Romanian cleric and politician. A bishop in Hungarian-ruled Transylvania, Cristea was elected Metropolitan-Primate of the Orthodox Church of the newly unified Greater Romania in 1919. As the Church was raised to a rank of Patriarchate, Miron Cristea was enthroned as the first Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church in 1925. In 1938, after Carol II banned political parties and established a royal dictatorship, he chose Cristea to be Prime Minister of Romania, a position in which he served for about a year (between 11 February 1938 and his death on 6 March 1939). Biography Early life Born in Toplița to Gheorghe and Domnița Cristea,Gheorghe Iancu"Membrii transilvăneni ai Academiei Române (sesiunea 1919)" in ''Anuarul Institutului de Istorie "George Bariţiu"'', Editura Academiei Române, 2007, ISSN 1584-4390 p. 73 a peasant family,"Patriarch Cristea of Rumania dies", ''New York Times' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conon Arămescu-Donici
Conon Arămescu-Donici (; February 2, 1837 – August 7, 1922) was Metropolitan-Primate of the Romanian Orthodox Church between 1912 and 1918. In conflict with the authorities of modern Romania, he was forced to resign due to his collaboration with German occupation troops during World War I. Biography Born in Urzici-Arămești, Neamț County (the state of Moldavia), into a family of priests, Arămescu-Donici studied at the Târgu Neamț and Socola Seminaries, then at the University of Iași, graduating in Literature in 1877. He was tonsured a monk at Neamț Monastery and later became a hierodeacon at Socola Monastery. He was a teacher at National School of Iași, and then at Normal School, between 1877 and 1880. Between 1880 and 1885, he studied Theology at Czernowitz Francis-Joseph University, in Austria-Hungary, gaining recognition as Doctor of Divinity."Arămescu-Donici, Conon", entry in Mircea Păcurariu, ''Dicționarul Teologilor Români'', Editura Univers Enciclop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atanasie Mironescu
Atanasie is one Romanian form of Athanasios, used mainly as a male given name. It may refer to: *Atanasie Anghel Popa (d. 1713), Romanian Greek-Catholic bishop in Transylvania *Archimandrite Averchie (Atanasie Iaciu Buda; 1806/1818–?), Aromanian monk and schoolteacher *Atanasie Marian Marienescu (1830-1915), ethnic Romanian Austro-Hungarian folklorist, ethnographer, judge *Atanasie Rednic (1722–1772), Primate of the Greek Catholic Church of the Romanians from Transylvania See also * Athanasios, original Greek name * Tănase Tănase, is a frequent Romanian surname, Romanian form of Athanasius (from the ancient Greek name: Athanasios, Αθανάσιος). Originally it was a given name with the form Atanase and Atanasie (Archaic Romanian) and then took the form of Tanase ..., most common modern Romanian form of Athanasios; given name and surname {{Disambig Romanian masculine given names Masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
