St. Paisius Velichkovsky chosen as patron of Ukrainian Vicariate in Romania

Bucharest, February 24, 2022

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St. Paisius Velichkovsky has been chosen as the Heavenly patron of the Ukrainian faithful living in Romania.

The choice was initiated by Fr. Nicolae Lauruc and the faithful of the Ukrainian Orthodox Vicarite of Romania, with the encouragement and blessing of His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel, reports the Basilica News Agency.

This year marks the 300th anniversary of the birth of St. Paisius, originally from Poltava in today’s Ukraine.

2022 has been proclaimed the commemorative year of the hesychastic saints Simeon the New Theologian, Gregory Palamas, and Paisius Velichkovsky by the Romanian Orthodox Church, and the year of St. Paisius by the Moldovan Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate.

“Because this year is so important, it was decided by mutual agreement to take St. Paisius as our Heavenly protector, of the Vicariate,” said Fr. Nicolae.

He also noted that this includes the establishment of a distinction dedicated to the saint, namely, the Patriarchal Order of St. Paisius of Neamț (Velichkovsky).

The Ukrainian faithful are very encouraged by the Patriarch’s blessing in this matter, as their help comes only from God and the Romanian Patriarchate, Fr. Nicolae explained.

The official proclamation of St. Paisius as the Vicariate’s patron saint will take place in the summer. The Vicariate intends to organize an event at Neamț Monastery, with a symposium where all Ukrainian clergy in Romania will gather.

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Hieroschemamonk Paisius Velichkovsky (1722-1794), a Moldovan elder who served as archimandrite of the Neamț Monastery in Moldova, holds a special place in the history of Orthodox monasticism and the Church as a whole. He wondrously combined personal holiness, a love for education, a remarkable ability to organize a monastic brotherhood, to attract and spiritually educate a large number of disciples, to create a large school of asceticism around himself, and, finally, a great literary talent that helped him accomplish the important and necessary task of correcting old translations and making new translations of Patristic ascetic literature.

Learn more about St. Paisius in an article about the great saint by His Eminence Metropolitan Laurus (Škurla).

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2/24/2022

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On the feast day of Venerable Paisius Velichkovsky (1722-1794), Theophan, Archbishop of Iasi and Metropolitan of Moldova and Bukovina (the Romanian Orthodox Church), brought a particle of the saint’s relics as a gift to the city of Poltava. Kellia of Equals-to-the-Apostles Constantine and Helen where Venerable Paisius Velichkovsky took monastic vows found on Athos Kellia of Equals-to-the-Apostles Constantine and Helen where Venerable Paisius Velichkovsky took monastic vows found on Athos Kellia of Equals-to-the-Apostles Constantine and Helen where Venerable Paisius Velichkovsky took monastic vows found on Athos Kellia of Equals-to-the-Apostles Constantine and Helen where Venerable Paisius Velichkovsky took monastic vows found on Athos
"Many centuries ago our fellow countryman Paisius Velichkovsky, who made a great contribution to the history of all Orthodoxy, precisely at this spot received his monastic tonsure and assimilated himself into the angelic life."
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