Representatives of the churches in Romania (Romanian Orthodox, Armenian and Lutheran) together with members of the diplomatic corps amongst whom where the Ambassadors for the United Kingdom, the United States and Ireland joined the Anglican congregation for the licensing of the Revd Patrick Irwin as Chaplain of the Church of the Resurrection, Bucharest, Romania with Sofia, Bulgaria. The service was conducted by the Ven Patrick Curran on behalf of the Bishop of Europe as his commissary.
The Anglican church building was built during the time of Queen Marie of Romania (1875-1938), a granddaughter of Queen Victoria and stayed open throughout the Cold War. The church is home to an icon that was given to the Anglican Bishop of the Diocese by the Romanian Patriarch on the occasion of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s visit to the country in 1965.
For the last seventeen years Patrick Irwin served as a chaplain in the British Armed Forces. The church building was recently redecorated inside and plans to repair the roof are well underway.
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