In a message on Thursday, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel urged everyone to increase prayer during the pandemic. The Patriarch asked Romanians to follow the measures of sanitary protection and to listen to the advice of doctors.
The Saint Irenaeus Joint Orthodox-Catholic Working Group gathered for its 17th annual meeting from 6‒10 October 2021 in Rome at the Institute for Ecumenical Studies of the Pontifical University of St Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum). The meeting was chaired by the Orthodox co-president Metropolitan Serafim (Joantă) of Germany, Central and Northern Europe (Romanian Orthodox Church) and by Catholic co-president Bishop Gerhard Feige of Magdeburg.