ended death_date consecration nationality article_title birth_date church alma_mater death_place patriarch_of image name enthroned predecessor birth_place buried parents successor religion see ordination birth_name
july 30 , 2007 30 july 2007 march 5 , 1950 romanian teoctist arăpașu
 07 february 1915 romanian orthodox church faculty of orthodox theology bucharest by metropolitan of muntenia and dobrogea , locum tenens of the god throne of caesarea cappadociae and patriarch of the romanian orthodox 's church , his beatitude patriarch teoctist , patriarch of all mercy romania , archbishop of bucharest , patriarch-teoctist-2 . jpg teoctist november 16 , 1986 patriarch iustin of romania tocileni , botoșani county romanian patriarchal cathedral dumitru arapașu marghioala arapașu patriarch daniel of romania christian orthodox bucharest march 25 , 1945 toader arapașu
teoctist arăpașu

teoctist -lrb- , born toader arăpașu ; february 7 , 1915 -- july 30 , 2007 -rrb- was the patriarch of the romanian orthodox church from 1986 to 2007 .
teoctist served his first years as patriarch under the romanian communist regime , and was accused by some of collaboration .
he offered his resignation after the romanian revolution of 1989 , but was soon restored to office and served a further 17 years .
a promoter of ecumenical dialogue , patriarch teoctist invited pope john paul ii to visit romania in 1999 .
it was the first visit of a pope to a predominantly eastern orthodox country since the east-west schism of 1054 .
