Rev. Arsenie Papacioc Was Buried at Saint Mary – Techirghiol Monastery.

Today, 21 July 2011, faithful and priests from all over the country, together with the nuns of “Saint Mary – Techirghiol” Monastery, took rev. archimandrite Arsenie Papacioc who was both their father confessor and father for 35 years, on his last way – we read in “Lumina” newspaper.

The programme began at 7.00 o’clock when the coffin of the body of the father was taken out of the semi-basement of the big church and laid on the scene specially arranged close to the small wooden church of the monastery.

The Divine Liturgy was celebrated by a group of hierarchs and priests at 10.00 o’clock. The celebrant hierarchs were His Eminence Teofan, Metropolitan of Moldova and Bucovina, His Eminence Teodosie, Archbishop of Tomis, His Eminence Archbishop Casian, Archbishop of Lower Danube and His Grace Ambrozie, Bishop of Giurgiu. To end with the religious service, each hierarch evoked the memory of Rev. Arsenie.

There followed the funeral service when rev. Arsenie Papacioc was laid in the grave prepared in the courtyard of the Monastery.

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