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 rumunski patrijarh je blizak prijatelj bečkog nadbiskupa kardinala Kristofa Šonborna. To prijateljstvo se razvilo osamdesetih godina, kada je Danijel bio predavač na Ekumenskom institutu u Bosiju, u Švajcarskoj.