Romanian Orthodox Churchand Ecumenism – an overview

Abstract

Although, called together with the all the other Eastern Orthodox Churches to join World Council of Churches in 1948, the Romanian Orthodox Church will come later, in 1961 in the Movement, together with all the other Churches from the Communist countries. Their arrival will change even the carta of the WCC, which will become from this moment a Trini-tarian one. Still, the history of the road of the Romanian Orthodox Church in the Ecumenical field starts earlier, with the conferences of Nathan Soder-blom. Noticing these aspects we will try in the present research to see which were the main aspects that defined the role of it in the Ecumenical and which were its major contributions. Theologians like Fr. Ioan Bria, who travelled in „Faith and Order” commission of WCC, or Fr. Dumitru Stăniloae, recently declared Saint by his Church come to speak about a deep concern and a honest commitment in the ecumenical pilgrimage. Also, starting from his activity as a professor in the Ecumenical Institute of Geneva (1980-1988), Dan-Ilie Ciobotea, who is today the Patriarch Daniel, had an important word to say in this field.