The Archbishop of Tomis is investigated by prosecutors for bribery and complicity to intellectual forgery. The guests coming from the country and from abroad were left alone, in the Archbishop Castle, by His Holiness, who went to the mountains.
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On the 5th of May edition of "România Liberă" newspaper, the incognito reporters of the daily publication were presenting in the article "How much is the Holy Spirit in Romania", the way in which those having a call and equally those having no call to church may become priests just like that. On one condition: to avoid the canon of the Orthodox Church.
The editors of the newspaper told us how one of them succeeded in becoming a student within Constanţa Theological College, in March, although it had been six months since the academic year had begun. "The fact that we were in March 2009 and the university courses had started six months before, was no impediment to him. The Archbishop Teodosie ordered the inspector of the Catechise Office, priest Emil Cosmin Brăescu, to prepare the applying file.
Right away, the priest drew up the needed papers", they say. In order to help him, it seems that the inspector would have received a bottle of whisky and four thousand lei. The two journalists narrated that they experimented no problems when the freshman wished to become a deacon, the first stage in turning into a real priest. Here came into scene a certain Bogdan, the personal secretary of IPS Teodosie. "We could only later understand why the Archbishop wanted to know if the journalist was rich. Bogdan, the personal secretary of IPS Teodosie sent us the message that we had to pay 1,500.00 Euros. According to what Bogdan said, the money was to be used for buying the prelate a present. We tol