Ten years since the elevation of His Holiness Father Nicholas to the dignity of Metropolitan of the two Americastranslated

With God's help, today, October 30, 2026, it is ten years since His Holiness Father Nicholas was elevated to the dignity of Metropolitan of the Romanian Orthodox Metropolitanate of the Two Americas. The elevation ceremony was performed by Blessed Father Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, in the Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest, on Sunday, October 30, 2016, in the presence of the hierarchs of the Holy Synod, representatives of the clergy and believers from the two Americas and representatives of the central authorities of the Romanian state. The day before, in the working session of October 28–29, 2016, the Holy Synod had decided to establish the Romanian Orthodox Metropolitanate of the two Americas and the Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of Canada.

The decisions of the 80th Congress of the Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese of the two Americas and of the Holy Synod

The establishment of the Metropolis was the fruit of a synodal work in which the voice of the clergy and believers from the American continent united with that of the Mother Church. Between July 1 and 3, 2016, the 80th Congress of the Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese of the two Americas, meeting at the Resurrection Parish in...