The year 2028 will be dedicated in the Romanian Patriarchate to biblical texts in liturgical life, to their translators and printerstranslated

The Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church on Thursday designated the year 2028 as the commemorative year of the use of biblical texts in the liturgical life of the Church and the commemorative year of translators and printers of biblical and liturgical books in the Romanian Patriarchate.

2028 marks the 340th anniversary of the printing of the Bucharest Bible, the first complete translation of the Holy Scriptures into Romanian.

The book contributed to the unification of the language, cult and culture of the Romanians from all the historical Romanian provinces, being described by the historian Alexandru D. Xenopol as "the most significant monument of religious literature among the Romanians, both by its extent and by its wonderful language".

It is not the first time that church translators and printers are honored through a year dedicated to them by the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church.

Thus, 2019 was the commemorative year of patriarchs Nicodim Munteanu and Iustin Moisescu and the translators of church books, 2016 was the commemorative year of St. Ier. Martyr Antim Ivireanul and of church printers, and the year 2008 was the Jubilee Year of the Holy Scriptures and the Holy Liturgy.

In fact, 2008 was the first such year in...