His Holiness Daniel, the Patriarch of Romanian Orthodox Church, ordained that on Sunday, 20 April 2008, at the Great Feast of the "Entry of the Lord into Jerusalem", the Most Reverend Archimandrite Dr. Mihail Filimon, the administrative vicar of the Archdiocese of Bucharest, to be ordained as the first diocesan Bishop in the newly established Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of Australia and New Zealand.