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.
Noul Patriarh al României este prieten apropiat cu Arhiepiscopul de Viena, Cardinalul Christoph Schonborn, prietenie legată în anii ’80, când Daniel era conferenţiar la Institutul Ecumenic din Bossey, în Elveţia.