Daniel Balaș, the former priest from the Constanta Ivrinezu Mic commune, who now works as a truck driver, revealed how much is paid to get a parish.
From his testimonies, 10,000 euros cost the seminar, 8,000 euros the faculty and another 2,000 euros the license. “With 20,000 euros, I think you can get an apartment in the smaller towns”, the former priest makes a calculation.
The amount you have to pay to get to serve in a parish does not stop there, it amounts to around 70,000 euros. The priest accused of BOR made revelations on social networks where he enjoys a large number of followers. that he had to pay to be able to become a priest.
“I was paying 900 lei a month for food, but I couldn’t call it food, it was something indescribable, even in prison you don’t get something like that: expired cakes, bugs in the food, hair, crud”.
Daniel Balaș, former priest Personal archive
To prove that he wasn’t lying, he called his former seminary colleagues live, who confirmed what he said.
Other obligations refer to the “gifts of the holy teachers”: “Many of the priest teachers are waiting for you at the exam with their book that you have to buy. You buy the books of the Holy Fathers, which are plagiarized, have criminal records upon criminal records. They are cheap plagiarists, and they come to us and sell us donuts and put us the books that they haven’t even read, if we want to pass the exam”.
Once we arrive at the parish, the fees begin to flow: for candles, crucifixes, for the Holy Seminary. “And from here the priests start and shoot you. Contributions, fees, taxes, aids, painted icons, Epiphany, Christmas. They are desperate, because from their salary they also pay state taxes and taxes, and candlestick, bell ringer, teacher, everything“, revealed the former priest.
Daniel Balaș is currently a truck driver in England, after leaving the parish in Ivrinezu Mic, Constanta.
In February of last year, the Archdiocese of Tomis announced that it had received “numerous notifications” regarding the public statements of the missionary priest Daniel Balaș. Consequently, “after a first analysis of them, the Permanency of the Diocesan Council decided to suspend him from service”. At the end of May, priest Daniel Balaș was ordained.
The priest was accused of upsetting the legal order of the Church through social media (Facebook and Tik-Tok), through attacks on the church hierarchy, which he allegedly said had taken a beating.
Also, those from the Archdiocese of Tomis accused priest Balaș of appealing to the sensitive heart of the faithful in order to win “a few pennies from social media.”
