Romanian Patriarch celebrates 35th anniversary of episcopal ordination

March 4, 2025 marked the 35th anniversary of the episcopal ordination of the Primate of the Romanian Orthodox Church, His Holiness Patriarch Daniel. It is reported that he was ordained as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Timisoara in the Metropolitan Cathedral in Timisoara on March 4, 1990. This was reported by the official website of the Romanian Orthodox Church.

According to the press service of the Romanian Patriarchate, in 1987, Patriarch Daniel took monasticism in the monastery of Sicestria in the county of Neamţ, his spiritual godfather was St. Cleopas of Sicestria. In the same year he was ordained a hierodeacon and then a hieromonk. In 1988, he was elevated to the rank of protosyncellus and appointed patriarchal advisor, serving as director of the Department of Contemporary Theology and Ecumenical Dialogue and lecturing at the Orthodox Theological Institute in Bucharest. On June 7, 1990, he was elected Metropolitan of Moldova and Bukovina, where he initiated several significant projects. On September 12, 2007, he was elected Archbishop of Bucharest, Metropolitan of Muntinia and Dobrogea and Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, and was enthroned on September 30, 2007, at the Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest.

Earlier, we reported that Patriarch Daniel of Romania called on the Romanian government to influence the Ukrainian authorities in connection with the scandal over the Three Saints’ Church, the tomb of the Bukovinian metropolitans of the Romanian-speaking parish of the UOC of Chernivtsi, which was sealed by the city authorities and transferred to the ownership of the OCU. Patriarch Daniel believes that such actions of the Chernivtsi city authorities are pressure on the Orthodox Romanians of Bukovyna.