Metropolitan Anthony of Bessarabia was enthroned in Chisinau: It is a new beginning. I won't make it on my owntranslated

His Holiness Father Antonie was enthroned on Sunday in Chisinau, in the presence of several hierarchs of the Romanian Orthodox Church, the Secretary of State for Cults Ciprian Olinici, as well as some high officials from the Republic of Moldova, who participated in the service and ceremony held at the Church of the "Three Hierarchs" and the "Source of Healing".

The service was presided over by Metropolitan Teofan of Moldavia and Bucovina, and the council was attended by Archbishops Cassian of Lower Danube and Athanasius of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Bishops Ignatie of Hus and Veniamin of South Bessarabia, as well as Vicar Bishops Nichifor Botoșaneanul of the Archdiocese of Iasi, Nectarie de Bogdania of the Archdiocese Chisinau and Teofil Trotusanul of the Roman and Bacău Archdiocese.

After His Holiness Father Cassian read the Patriarchal Grammar of Enthronement, His Holiness Father Teofan, the delegate of the Blessed Father Patriarch Daniel, handed the new Metropolitan of Bessarabia the mantle, the cross and the engolpion, the black camilafca with a cross and the bishop's crutch - insignia of the metropolitan rank. From the Patriarch of Romania, the new metropolitan received...