Abstract: The study analyzes the discourse of both the Romanian Orthodox Church and the Orthodox laics concerning the consequences of political Europe adhesion for the Romanian Orthodoxy. The first part presents the position of the ROC hierarchy towards different aspects of the presence of the Romanian Orthodoxy in Europe. The theologian Ion Bria is included in the same category. The second part of the study analyzes a couple of themes dealing with the European identity of ROC: the Declaration from Snagov in 2000, a means for all religions to support the efforts of Romania for Europe adhesion and the problem of the permanent Representation of the ROC to the European Institutions. A different chapter of this study regards the process of ROC becoming European. The conclusion of the present study lays in the identification of certain redundant themes in the discourse of ROC hierarchy and the laics. Presenting the positions of certain Eastern authors who have also paid attention to the Orthodox presence in EU (His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, Christos Yannaras) implies offering directions in analysis that could be carried by the debates in the Romanian public space.

Keywords: discourse, Europeanization, Orthodoxy, laics, EU adhesion