Rev. Archimandrite Arsenie Papacioc, father confessor of Saint Mary Monastery – Techirghiol subordinated to the Patriarch, passed away today, 19 July 2011 – informs Trinitas Radio station.
He passed away around 10.00 o’clock, in the bosom of the monastic community whom he advised for 35 years. Father Arsenie Papacioc had suffered for quite a long time from some cardiac and kidney diseases, for which he was hospitalised several times in the course of the last year at the county Emergency Hospital of Constanta.
Archimandrite Arsenie Papacioc, one of the most important father confessors of the Romanian Orthodoxy, was born in 1914. He became a monk ever since a young man, at Sihastria Monastery. He was abbot of Slatina Monastery, where he was arrested and taken to Suceava. After years of prison, in 1976 he settled at Saint Mary Monastery – Techirghiol.
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