It has been 12 years since the Most Reverend Father Timotei Prahoveanul received the gift of the priesthoodtranslated

Friday marks 12 years since His Holiness Father Timotei Prahoveanul, Vicar Bishop of the Archdiocese of Bucharest, received the gift of bishopric.

Father Vicar Bishop was born on November 13, 1966 in Rădășeni – Fălticeni, Suceava county, to parents Miron and Elena Aioanei, attended the Theological Seminary at the Neamț Monastery, then studied Orthodox Theology at the specialized faculties in Bucharest and Iași.

Academic and publishing activity He studied modern Greek (1995-1996) at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Athens, then attended doctoral courses at the "Justinian Patriarch" Faculty of Orthodox Theology of the University of Bucharest (2011-2014).

In 2014, he defended his doctorate in Theology with a thesis on the history of the Romanian settlements in Jerusalem, developed and published in 2014 at the Basilica Publishing House of the Romanian Patriarchate, under the title "Romanian Settlements in the Holy Land". The work brought him the "Dumitru Stăniloae" Award of the Romanian Academy in 2018.

Since then, he has had a prodigious publishing activity, through which he makes relevant aspects of Christian history and spirituality known to readers.

Among the most…