"The Romanians are a Latin people in Eastern Europe, surrounded by nations with whom they share the Orthodox faith and nations that bear the stamp of Catholicism and Protestantism. They are a people that accomplished a synthesis between all these. They share the Latinity with the West and the Orthodoxy with the East. The intermingling of these elements has transformed Romanian spirituality in a bridge between the Western and Eastern spirituality."

Romanian theologian Dumitru Staniloae