” “” “40 days after the death of the Patriarch Teoctist, last night the Orthodox Church of Romania elected the Metropolitan Bishop Daniel of Moldavia and Bukovina its new Patriarch. The Metropolitan Bishop according to the French-speaking Orthodox information portal "Orthodoxie", as also corroborated by the Bishops Conference of Romania has been voted by 95 of the 161 members of the ecclesiastic election board. "I am grateful stated the Metropolitan Bishop to the Holy Synod and the election board for their confidence; they can rest assured I will keep serving the Orthodox Church as the Patriarch Teoctist did". He was born on July 22nd 1951 in Dobresti: after secondary school, he enrolled in the Faculty of Theology of Sibiu and then gained a postgraduate degree from the School of Theology of Bucharest. He studied at the Protestant Faculty of Theology in Strasbourg (France) and the Catholic Faculty of Theology at the University of Freiburg (Germany). In June 1990, he was appointed Metropolitan Bishop of Moldavia and Bukovina. The author of many theological writings, the Metropolitan Bishops speaks fluent French, German, English and Italian. He has been one of the main players in the process of preparation and organisation of the Third Ecumenical Assembly of Sibiu, which from 4th to 9th September brought to the Romanian city 2,500 delegates from all the Christian Churches of Europe. ” “” “” “” “
