Rumunski patrijarh je blizak prijatelj bečkog nadbiskupa kardinala Christopha Schonborna, prijateljstvo iskovano 1980-tih kad je Daniel bio predavač na Ekumenskom institutu u Bosseyju u Švicarskoj.
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.