The Shepherd, November 2007
NEWS SECTION
NEW ROMANIAN PATRIARCH
METROPOLITAN DANIEL of Moldavia and Bukovina has been elected as the new Patriarch of Romania, according to a press communique issued by the Patriarchate on 13th September. He was born in 1951 in Dobresti, the third child of Alexie and Stella Ciobotea. After graduating from the University of Sibiu, he continued his studies abroad, spending two years each at the Faculty of Protestant Theology at the University of Humanistic Sciences at Strasbourg and at the Faculty of Catholic Theology at Albert Ludwig University at Freiburg im Breisgau. In 1990 he became Metropolitan of Moldavia and Bukovina, and from 1992, he was professor of Theology at the Faculty of Orthodox Theology at the Al. I. Cuza University of Iasi. He is said to be fluent in French, German, English and Italian. He was enthroned as the sixth Patriarch of Romania on 30th September, and during the celebration the President awarded the new Patriarch the order “Star of Romania” Grand Cross Sash and Badge. A release from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (13/9/07) reports that the new Patriarch is known as a modernist and one open to the Ecumenical movement, as his academic background might suggest. The release also emphasizes worries about his probable past collaboration with the communist “security” agencies.
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