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Vladimir, (born Nicolae Cantarean, 18 August 1952), is a bishop of the Moldovan Orthodox Church under the Moscow Patriarchate. He serves as Metropolitan of Chișinău and All Moldova and thus as first hierarch of the Church of Moldova and as a permanent member of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church .
Eparchies of the Metropolis of Chișinău and All Moldova. It is believed that Orthodox Christianity was first brought to Romania and Moldova by the Apostle Andrew.Be that as it may, by the 14th century the Orthodox Church in the Principality of Moldavia—today northeastern Romania, Moldova, and southwestern Ukraine—was under the authority of the Metropolitan of Galicia.
The Russian Church celebrates the feast of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia on the Sunday nearest January 25 (o.s.) / February 7 (n.s.) -- the date Metropolitan Vladimir of Kiev's martyrdom (the first Hieromartyr under Bolshevik rule of Russia following the October Revolution).
Moldova's president waded carefully on Monday into a row pitting the ex-Soviet state's two rival Orthodox churches against each other over Russian influence, saying churches should facilitate the ...
Courtesy of Candace Cameron Bure/Instagram Candace Cameron Bure is mourning the death of her father-in-law, former athlete Vladimir Bure. “Our hearts are broken as we grieve the loss of Val’s ...
In 1980, with the blessing of Archbishop Jonathan of Chisinau and Moldova Nicolae entered the Zhabsky Monastery, studying from 1981 to 1985 at the Odessa Theological Seminary. On September 16, 1985, Archbishop Jonathan ordained Nicolae a celibate deacon. On January 3, 1988, Metropolitan Serapion of Chisinau and Moldova tonsured Fr. Dn. Nicolae ...
The Vatican had shared with police findings of an internal investigation of a former Australian bishop over child sex abuse allegations and the church would fully cooperate with criminal ...
Prior to 1812, the Orthodox Church in eastern Moldavia or Bessarabia, modern day Moldova, was part of the Metropolis of Moldavia (under the Church of Constantinople). Following the annexation of Bessarabia by the Russian Empire in 1812, the Russian Orthodox Church established the Eparchy of Chișinău and Khotin under Metropolitan Gavril ...