On je u utorak službeno potvrdio da su Nicolae Corneanu, čelnik crkve banatske mitropolije i član Svetog sinoda, te Constantin Balaceanu-Stolnici, akademik i član izbornog kolegija koji će izabrati narednog patrijarha, sarađivali s tajnom policijom.
He officially confirmed Tuesday that Nicolae Corneanu, the head of the Banat Metropolitan Church and a member of the Holy Synod, and Constantin Balaceanu-Stolnici, an academic and member of the electoral college that will choose the next patriarch, had collaborated with the secret police.