No offense guys, but you’re off topic.
The topic of the thread is regarding the relations with the Romanian Catholic Church and the Romanian Orthodox Church and inter-Communion. Not the Latin Church and the Orthodox Churches on the filioque.
As for the subject, I would suspect that the Hierarchy in Rome would consider this an internal Romanian issue.
“As for the subject, I would suspect that the Hierarchy in Rome would consider this an internal Romanian issue.”
I agree, though perhaps they might wish that the incident never happened. I sincerely doubt Rome had anything to do with it and it is as likely as not that this Metropolitan, given his history, might simply have presented himself for communion and the presiding Latin hierarch gave it to him rather than make a stir.
Individual hierarchs sometimes do and say silly and troublesome things. Some years back a very holy and wise Greek metropolitan here in America announced after the successful close of a joint commission on the filioque that he had “ended the Great Schism and established communion with Rome”. Though those that heard the remark, Orthodox and Latins, were too polite to laugh, he did end up having to issue a retraction and an apology, so this guy in Romania isn’t all alone on this sort of otherwise meaningless stunt.