The new Romanian Patriarch is a close friend of Vienna's Archibishop Cardinal Christoph Schonborn, a friendship that was forged in the 1980s, when Daniel was a lecturer at the Ecumenical Institute in Bossey, Switzerland.
Novi rumunjski patrijarh bliski je prijatelj bečkog nadbiskupa, kardinala Christopha Schonborna. To prijateljstvo nastalo je osamdesetih godina, kada je Daniel bio predavač na Ekumenskom institutu u Bossey, u Švicarskoj.