Pope Francis is set to visit his third Eastern Orthodox-majority country in the space of a month at the beginning of June, traveling to Romania just weeks after visiting Bulgaria and North Macedonia.

Highlights of the first day of May 31-June 2 papal journey. Pope Francis prays the Our Father with Daniel, Orthodox patriarch of Romania, in the Romanian Orthodox new cathedral in Bucharest May 31.

Pope Francis expressed hope May 31 that the Catholic and Romanian Orthodox churches will work more closely together in the future, asking in an address to the leaders of the 16-million-strong Orthodox ...

More than 50 years ago, new communist regimes in Eastern Europe seized church properties in the name of the state. For the last 10 years, former communist countries have been working -- some less ...

Pope John Paul II and Romanian Orthodox Patriarch Teoctist arrive in Podul Izvor Park for a Sunday Mass celebrated in Bucharest, Romania, May 9, 1999. The late pope’s visit to Romania in 1999 was the ...

ROME — On Sunday in Blaj, Pope Francis will beatify seven Greek-Catholic bishops of Romania who were killed by the communist regime between 1950 and 1970. These martyrs “have given all to defend the ...

In this Sunday, Dec. 30, 2018 photo, a person rides a bicycle by a yard decorated with European Union and Romanian flags in Tartasesti, Romania. (Credit: Vadim Ghirda/AP.) Listen ROME – When Pope ...

The Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, Daniel, on Thursday sent a congratulatory message to His Holiness Pope Leo XIV, in which he expresses his full conviction that the new Sovereign Pontiff ...

Marking a second historic moment in Catholic-Romanian Orthodox relations, Pope Francis visited Patriarch Daniel in Bucharest on the afternoon of May 31 and told him and the members of the permanent ...