Vorona Monastery is an Orthodox nunnery in Romania, located in the Vorona commune (Botoșani County). It is located in the middle of a forest 2 km from the village of Vorona.

According to tradition, at the beginning of the 16th century (1503), Romanian monks from the villages of Moldova, but also from parts of Banat, as well as Russian and Greek hermitages, founded a small wooden hermitage called "Vorona Glade Hermitage". The first monks, who came from Russia, bought the Icușeni estate.

The name of the locality comes from a Slavic language, vorona meaning "crow" in translation, and legend has it that, sometimes, flocks of crows would settle in the glade. Over time, the Vorona Monastery was a flourishing monastic hearth, with up to 200 monks living here at certain times.

Over time, the monastery was financially supported by several wealthy families. Hetman Ilie Jora and his wife Teofana donated part of their estate to this monastic hearth.

Between 1793-1803, the cupbearer Iordache Panaite founded a wall church dedicated to the "Assumption of the Virgin Mary", as indicated in the inscription above the entrance door. The church was consecrated in 1803.

In 1835, next to the old wooden church that had deteriorated over time, Archimandrite Rafail built a stone church dedicated to the "Nativity of the Virgin Mary". This place of worship was covered with tin and painted inside in 1869 by the monk Iorgu Vârnav Liteanu with his wife Anastasia and his sister, the shemi-monk Epraxia Vârnav. In the same year, the icon of St. Nicholas from the iconostasis was covered in silver. All these dates are recorded in the church's inscription from 1870.

In 1836, Archimandrite Rafail, the abbot of the monastery, built the Church of "St. Hierarch Nicholas", located in the monastery cemetery. This place of worship has modest dimensions, having an artistically crafted iconostasis. Also during the pastorate of Abbot Rafail, as attested by the "founding pomelnicul ctitoresc", the bell tower and the bodies of monks' cells (where the abbot, the refectory and the bakery are located) on the west side were built.

During the period 1869-1870, the shemamonk Vladimir Machedon painted the interior walls of the Church of the "Nativity of the Virgin Mary" and also made the iconostasis. The expense of painting the church was borne by the shemamonk Iorgu Vârnav, his wife Anastasia and his sister, the shemamonk Epraxia Vârnav, as evidenced by the inscription on the northern outer wall of the narthex. He also carved the yew wood iconostasis of the Church of "St. Hierarch Nicholas" and painted the icons in the neoclassical style.

At the beginning of the 20th century, as shown by a marble slab placed on the southern exterior wall of the narthex of the Church of the "Assumption of the Virgin Mary", through the urging and persistence of Metropolitan Pimen Georgescu of Moldavia and with the help of the prefects of Botoșani D. Vizanti and P. Irimescu and the monk Victor Cristescu, the two churches and the old cells were repaired and new cells were built, the abbot being Archimandrite Nifon Ioniță.

During the First World War, many young schoolchildren who had fled from Muntenia were gathered and sheltered in the buildings of this monastery. The monks here taught the young people to read.

Between 1929-1931, brother Toader Arăpașu (the future Patriarch Teoctist) lived at this monastery. The cell in which he lived is preserved today as a museum, on its wall a memorial plaque was placed in 2005.

As a result of Decree No. 410 of 1959, the Vorona and Sihăstria Voronei monasteries were closed. The objects of heritage value (Holy Vessels, silver crosses, etc.) from the hermitage were confiscated by the state. The churches were locked, and the cells transformed into grain warehouses of the C.A.P. .

In 1968, Metropolitan Iustin Moisescu of Moldavia and Suceava reopened both monasteries, the Vorona Monastery with communities of nuns, and the Sihăstria Voronei Hermitage with communities of monks. In the 10 years of abandonment, the monastic ensemble had begun to deteriorate. Between 1968-1972, restoration works were carried out on the monastery churches, while important restoration, consolidation and protection works were also carried out on the cell blocks on the west side, as well as on other buildings of the monastic complex.

During the pastorate of Metropolitan Teoctist Arăpașu, the "Nativity of the Virgin Mary" Church was repainted (in 1982), the iconostasis was restored, the old pews were replaced with new ones, and new cells and the abbot were built (1984-1986).