"The Romanian Orthodox theology is very similar to the morphology of our country, which has the Carpathians at the centre. Our theology retains the suggestions of the Carpathian ridge: the balance, the great openness and at the same time the careful building on stone, the stone of faith". It was stated in an interview with SIR by father Constantin Necula, counsellor to the Metropolitan diocese of Transilvania and professor of catechetics at the University of Orthodox Theology of Sibiu, while the third European Ecumenical Assembly is under way in the Romanian city. "The strength of Orthodox ecumenism he added lies in its ability to make saints be born who with their testimony keep the Orthodoxy alive". The Assembly of Sibiu, for the Orthodox theologian, is "an opportunity to question ourselves and reflect together on how much Christ has remained in the Christian testimony of Europe. I think the presence of ecumenism in social activity and life is one of the most important schemes of interpretation of our age". "Sibiu concludes father Necula is a European city, with very different confessional and ethical souls. But Europe cannot but be built on unchangeable moral foundations. And the fundamental ethics must have Jesus Christ as its central model".
