(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda) The Associated PressCONSTANTA, Romania -- Stretching the church calendar, Orthodox Easter arrived over a month late in a Romanian city on the shores of the Black Sea. Wanting to give worshippers the opportunity to take part in what is considered to be the most important Christian celebration, Romanian Orthodox Archbishop Teodosie held an unprecedented Easter service Tuesday night that continued into the early hours of Wednesday. The rescheduled event, which was frowned upon by the leaders of Romania’s Orthodox Church, the country’s dominant faith, was attended by hundreds of people. Christ is risen.”The great majority of worshippers used masks to cover their faces, though Archbishop Teodosie and many of the service’s other celebrants did not. Some people traveled to the service, held outside the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul, from as far away as Romanian capital Bucharest, about 225 kilometers (140 miles) to the west.

Source: ABC News May 28, 2020 08:03 UTC