UOC priests take part in celebrations at Romania’s Putna Monastery
Divine Liturgy at Romania’s Putna Monastery on July 10, 2026. Photo: Facebook page of the faithful of the Chernivtsi Eparchy
On July 10, 2026, celebrations were held at Putna Monastery in Romania to mark the 560th anniversary of the laying of the monastery’s foundation stone by its founder, the Holy Right-Believing Voivode Stephen the Great.
With the blessing of Metropolitan Meletiy, clergy of the Chernivtsi-Bukovyna Eparchy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, led by Archpriest Vasyl Kovalchuk, dean of the Storozhynets District, took part in the festive service. The event was reported on the Facebook page of the faithful of the Chernivtsi Eparchy.
A solemn Divine Liturgy was celebrated in the monastery church that day, presided over by the monastery’s abbot, Archimandrite Melchizedek.
During the service, prayers were offered for the repose of the monastery’s founders and benefactors, as well as the scholars who contributed to the study of the holy monastery’s history.
Putna Monastery is one of Romania’s best-known Orthodox shrines. Founded by St. Stephen the Great, it has remained an important spiritual center and place of prayerful veneration for centuries.
The faithful noted that the joint prayer of representatives of the UOC’s Chernivtsi-Bukovyna Eparchy and the brethren of Putna Monastery bore witness to the centuries-old spiritual ties and fraternal communion between the Orthodox communities of Ukraine and Romania.
As the UOJ reported, on July 2, 2026, clergy of the Chernivtsi-Bukovyna Eparchy took part in a solemn service at Romania’s Putna Monastery marking the feast of the repose of St. Stephen the Great, whose holy relics rest at the monastery.
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