Nicolae Corneanu

However, due to his actions, the Orthodox Holy Synod marginalized Archbishop Corneanu, and his fellow clergymen criticized him.

[5] Metropolitan Nicolae Corneanu was a renowned spiritual worker for the unity between the Roman Catholic and the Eastern Orthodox Churches.

On May 25, 2008, during the consecration of the Queen of Peace parish church in Timișoara, he became the first Orthodox bishop after centuries to receive communion at a Catholic Liturgy.

[8] Being under pressure from external ecclesiastic entities (most notable from Holy Mount Athos representatives [9] and from the Head of the Moscow Patriarchate, Department for External Church Relations), the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church gave in and chastised Metropolitan Nicolae.

[10] On July 8–9, 2008 Patriarch Daniel convoked in Bucharest a special assembly of the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church.