Bartolomeu Anania

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 Humanitatis No. I (XIII) / 2022 The Synodal Bible of 1968 Dan Ciachir

The period of relative liberalisation under the communist regime in Romania, between 1962 and 1968, enabled the Romanian Orthodox Church to achieve several remarkable milestones: the canonisation of the first seven Romanian saints in 1955, under Patriarch Justinian, and the printing of the Synodal Bible in 1968, in a print run of approximately 200,000 copies, made possible with the support of Queen Elizabeth II and the British Bible Society.

Studia Humanitatis No. III (VII) / 2018 The Church-going Nobleman Dan Ciachir

The article recounts the author’s personal memories of Alexandru Paleologu, highlighting his Orthodox dimension through his encounters with Archbishop Bartolomeu Anania, Father Stăniloae and Patriarch Teoctist, the ‘Credo’ programme on Caragiale and Orthodoxy, the choice of a spiritual father, and the funeral service held in September 2005 at Mavrogheni Church.

Studia Humanitatis No. II (VI) / 2018 Chronicle of a Canonisation Dan Ciachir

Three significant events in the autumn of 1955 — the liturgical canonisation of the first Romanian saints, the 70th anniversary of autocephaly, and the widespread veneration of saints with relics — are reconstructed on the basis of the chronicle in issue 11–12/1955 of the journal The Romanian Orthodox Church, written by the priest and professor Niculae Șerbănescu. The highlight was the canonisation of Saint Calinic at Cernica Monastery on Sunday, 23 October 1955, in the presence of Patriarch Justinian, foreign Orthodox delegations and an impressive crowd of the faithful.

Studia Humanitatis No. I (V) / 2018 Father Anania Dan Ciachir

The text recounts the friendship spanning nearly three decades between the author and Bartolomeu Anania, from the moment they met at the enthronement of Metropolitan Antonie of Transylvania in February 1982 right through to the years following the fall of the communist regime. Through specific anecdotal episodes – visits to Căldărușani, late-night discussions in the studio flat near Cișmigiu Park, the dinner at Căldărușani attended by Patriarch Teoctist and Protosinghel Daniel Ciobotea – the author portrays Anania’s character as a theologian, writer and witness to the Church’s recent history, highlighting the value of his work, from Rotonda plopilor aprinși and Greul pământului to File de acatist and Cerurile Oltului.

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