Bucharest clergy hold memorial services for victims of 2015 Colectiv nightclub fire

The Archdiocese of Bucharest held commemorative religious services on Friday in memory of the victims of the Colectiv nightclub fire.

Priests from Bucharest’s Sector 4 and those serving in the capital’s public cemeteries prayed both for those who died and for those whose lives were irreversibly changed by the fire on 30 October 2015.

The commemorations began with the Divine Liturgy at St Nicholas–Broșteni Church, celebrated by a group of clergy led by Fr Ionuț Bărbulescu, Dean of Bucharest’s Sector 4.

A memorial service followed near the entrance to the former Pionierul Factory, where the Colectiv nightclub was located. Clergy led by Fr. Ionuț Bărbulescu, along with Fr. Gheorghe Dilirici, coordinator of the priests serving in Bucharest’s public cemeteries, officiated.

Prayer as a source of healing Fr. Ionuț Bărbulescu, Dean of Sector 4, officiated the Divine Liturgy, followed by a memorial service, on Friday, October 30, 2026, at the site of the fire; he was joined by Fr. Gheorghe Dilirici, coordinator of the clergy serving in Bucharest’s state-run cemeteries. Photo credit: BASILICA / Raluca Ene “We prayed, convinced that their souls are immortal,” the dean said at…