On 25. Ocotober, Bishop Atanasie of Bogdania, Assistant Bishop of the Diocese of Italy, was elected as the first Romanian Orthodox Archbishop for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Bishop Teofil of Iberia, Assistant Bishop of the Diocese of Spain and Portugal, was also considered for the role. The newly elected Archbishop, who is 42, has been part of the Romanian Orthodox Church Synod since May 2018. He will be the first to lead the newly established Archdiocese of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, created earlier this year.

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On 25. October, the Holy Synod elected Bishop Nectarie of Brittany, Assistant Bishop of the Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese of Western Europe, to the position of Romanian Orthodox Bishop of Ireland and Iceland. Bishop Nectarie was born on January 11, 1980. He completed his undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral studies at the Saint-Serge Institute of Orthodox Theology in Paris. His doctoral thesis, supervised by Father Prof. Dr. Nicolas Ozoline, focused on the topic, “The Sacrament of Confession – The Historical Development of the Rite in Romanian Territories and Its Theology in the Orthodox Church”, which he defended in 2012.Archimandrite Simeon Mureșan, abbot of the “Dormition of the Mother of God” Monastery in Vilar, France, was also considered for the role.

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