enthronement of a bishop | Martyria

Studia Humanitatis No. I (XV) / 2023 Listening to Patriarch Justin Dan Ciachir

The article recounts the enthronement of Metropolitan Antonie of Transylvania in Sibiu on 7 February 1982, offering a memorable portrait of Patriarch Iustin Moisescu: his address at the agape banquet at the ‘Emperor of the Romans’, his concise theological work, his doctoral thesis in Athens, and Constantin Noica’s admiration for his consummate Hellenism.

Studia Theologica No. I (VIII) / 2019 The election of Bishop Sofronie Vulpescu to the see of the Diocese of Râmnic (1913–1918) Rev. Dr. Laurențiu Rădoi

Bishop Sofronie Vulpescu of Râmnic, the only Romanian hierarch imprisoned by German authorities during the First World War, is the subject of this study, which reconstructs his life and ecclesiastical career from his birth in 1856 in Lupșanu to his enthronement as Bishop of Râmnic-Noul Severin in 1913, drawing on speeches, reports, and contemporary accounts, including critical remarks by Nicolae Iorga and Tudor Arghezi.