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Studia Humanitatis No. II (XVI) / 2023 The Beginnings of the Church Organisation in the Blessed Land of Vâlcea (I) Archimandrite Veniamin Micle

The article traces the history of the Orthodox Church’s organisation in the Romanian territories, from the defence of Academician Răzvan Theodorescu’s thesis on the pre-schismatic Latin character of Romanian Christianity to the voivodal foundations established by Basarab I and Nicolae Alexandru, demonstrating through inscriptions, synodal documents, monastic testimonies and architectural monuments that Orthodoxy has been an integral part of the Romanian people’s identity since the Apostolic Age.

The Words of the Fathers No. II (VI) / 2018 Sermon I. On Easter and idleness The Saint Grigorie Teologul

The First Homily of Saint Gregory the Theologian, delivered at Easter in the year 362 in the church at Nazianzus, marks the beginning of his priestly ministry in a context characterised by the Arian crisis and the tensions caused by the heterodox confession signed by his father, Gregory the Elder. The young Gregory’s return from seclusion represents both an act of obedience to his ordination and a mission to restore Nicene orthodoxy and reconcile the community.