On 4 March, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel of the Romanian Orthodox Church celebrates 35 years since his episcopal ordination. He was ordained as an Assistant Bishop of the Archdiocese of Timișoara at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Timișoara on March 4, 1990, shortly after the fall of communism. Born in Dobrești, Timiș County, in 1951, Patriarch Daniel is the third child of the Ciobotea family.

He earned a degree in Theology from the Orthodox Theological Institute in Sibiu in 1974 and pursued doctoral studies under the guidance of Saint Dumitru Stăniloae. He furthered his studies at the universities of Strasbourg (France) and Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany).

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