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St. Bessarion Church
St. Bessarion Church () is the name given to two Romanian Orthodox churches located at 14 Visarion Street in Bucharest, Romania, close to Piața Romană. They are dedicated to Saint Bessarion II of Larissa. Old church The old church was built, according to the ''pisanie'', in 1797, by the archpriest of Bucharest and the private secretary to Prince of Wallachia, Prince Alexander Ypsilantis (1725–1805), Alexander Ypsilantis. It was dedicated to Saint Bessarion, protector against plague, during an epidemic, and was also consecrated to Saints Charalambos and Menas of Egypt. An earlier church on the site was built of wood, ship-shaped, with a polygonal altar apse. Archaeological evidence places its construction in the early 18th century. Several decades later, at an uncertain date, a masonry church of similar shape was built there. Two graves survive in the portico and narthex, the latter holding the remains of a certain Mihăilă, who died during the reign of Alexander Mourouzis (179 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romanian Orthodox
The Romanian Orthodox Church (ROC; , ), or Romanian Patriarchate, is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox church in full communion with other Eastern Orthodox Christian churches, and one of the nine patriarchates in the Eastern Orthodox Church. Since 1925, the church's Primate has borne the title of Patriarch. Its jurisdiction covers the territories of Romania and Moldova, with additional dioceses for Romanians living in nearby Ukraine, Serbia and Hungary, as well as for diaspora communities in Central and Western Europe, North America and Oceania. It is the only autocephalous church within Eastern Orthodoxy to have a Romance language for liturgical use. The majority of Romania's population (16,367,267, or 85.9% of those for whom data were available, according to the 2011 census data), as well as some 720,000 Moldovans, belong to the Romanian Orthodox Church. Members of the Romanian Orthodox Church sometimes refer to Orthodox Christian doctrine as ''Dreapta credință'' ("right ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
