Holy Forty Martyrs Church, Iași
The Holy Forty Martyrs Church () is a Romanian Orthodox church located at 12 General Henri M. Berthelot Street in Iași, Romania. It is dedicated to the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste. Located in the Copou neighborhood, which in the mid-18th century was sparsely populated and had no place of worship, Andi Emanuel MihalacheHistoryat the Iași County Cultural Office site the church was built in 1760 by ''hetman'' Vasile Roset and his wife Safta. It was located on a plot of land granted that year by List of rulers of Moldavia, Prince Ioan Teodor Callimachi. Completed quickly, it was blessed by the prince's brother, Metropolitan Gavriil Callimachi. Initially, Roset placed the church under the protection of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. In 1767, he transferred it to the Metropolis of Proilavia. Within twenty years, the church was in a state of degradation, prompting the high ''vistiernic'' Lascarache Roset to try and reclaim the church founded by his parents. Thus, he obtaine ...
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