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Romanian Orthodox Patriarchate

Romanian Orthodox Church

by Dan Anton Dima, 15 May 2005

The Romanian Orthodox flag, as seen hanging on a pole in front of a church in downtown Bucharest. It looks to be exactly the same size as Romania's, but I am not sure about the proper shade of blue. For the main element I used the image at the Romanian Church in Australia site (the only one that had it): http://www.crez.org/history.asp. The symbolism can be considered as quite generic. In any case, the motto at the bottom is from John 21,17: "Feed My sheep", more close to "Guard My sheep" in our language.
Dan Anton Dima, 15 May 2005

Romanian Orthodox Patriarchate

image by Ivan Sarajcic, 21 July 2006

based on http://www.patriarhia.ro/simboluri.php

At http://www.patriarhia.ro/eng/symbols.php can be seen the flag and the arms of the Romanian Orthodox Patriarchate. The flag is white, with a coat of arms in full-color. This looks like the arms shown as the Patriarchate's, except they seem to be colored differently. The large graphic of the arms show a blue shield on which two golden griffins support a smaller red shield. On the red shield is an elaborate cross in gold. The griffins stand upon some sort of device- several branching lines, perhaps some kind of vegetation(?). On the blue shield, above the red one is a white bird (perhaps a dove) with its wings extended. Supporting the blue shield are two angels, in gold and white. Above the shield is a patriarch's mitre, behind the shield are two staves crossed- one topped by a cross and the other with two intertwined serpents. Suspended from the shield is a gold tassel. The angels stand upon a red scroll with gold lettering which passes below the tassel. Where the reverse of the scroll is visible it is white.

The arms on the flag are very similar but the large shield is red, the small shield is too small to determine, and one angel is in red and white and the other blue and white, with the scroll being in blue, gold, and red, and the tassel in red.
Ned Smith, 20 July 2006

image located by Ned Smith

Ivan's image differs from this photo of the flag - the flag the main shield is red, not blue. I can't be sure of the color of the smaller shield, but enlarging the flag graphic hints it might be blue (which would make sense). The angel on the hoist flag has gold wings, not white, and a red stole, not gold; the angel on the fly side has gold wings, not white, and a blue stole, not gold; the scroll below the angels is blue in the fold on the hoist end, gold in the center fold, and red in the fold on the fly end. The tassel suspended from the bottom of the shield is red.
Ned Smith, 21 July 2006