Bucharest Central Detention Centre opens chapel dedicated to Sts Moses the Ethiopian and Demetrius the New

Patriarchal Auxiliary Bishop Varlaam of Ploiești consecrated a chapel on Saturday at the Central Detention Centre of the Bucharest General Directorate of Police (DGPMB).

Concelebrating were Archimandrite Ciprian Grădinaru, ecclesiarch of the National Cathedral Chapel; Fr Ciprian Ion Ioniță, patriarchal adviser; Fr Mihai Hau, honorary patriarchal adviser; Fr Ionuț Bărbulescu, Archpriest of Bucharest’s Sector 4; and Fr Felix Iulian Radu, military priest and chaplain of the DGPMB Central Detention Centre.

Representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Bucharest General Directorate of Police attended the event.

First chapel in a pre-trial detention facility Bishop Varlaam consecrated the chapel of the Pre-Trial Detention Centre of the Capital Police on Saturday, September 5, 2026. Photo: BASILICA / Mircea Florescu “With the help of the Good God and with the blessing of His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel, today we celebrated the consecration of this chapel, which will become the spiritual heart of the Capital’s Central Detention Centre and will be a place whose benefits are difficult for us, as human beings, to quantify,” Bishop Varlaam of Ploiești said at the…