Venerable
Philophthea of Pasărea
Schemanun of Pasărea
Schemanun of Pasărea Monastery, mother of St Calinic of Cernica, who reposed in 1833; canonized in July 2025.
- Feast
- April 12old style April 25
- Reposed
- 183319th century
- Place
- Pasărea monastery
- Order
- Venerables
Life
Saint Venerable Philophthea of Pasărea was a schemanun at Pasărea Monastery, the mother of Saint Hierarch Callinicus of Cernica. She was born in the middle of the eighteenth century, in Bucharest, and fell asleep in 1833 at Pasărea. Her family name was Antonescu.
The Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church canonized her at its session of 1 July 2025, with the title Saint Venerable Philophthea of Pasărea, mother of Saint Hierarch Callinicus of Cernica, and set her feast on 12 April.
Our sources do not say more about her life.
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