The funerals of Romania's Orthodox Patriarch Teoctist will begin on Friday at 7:00 AM, with a ceremony conducted by Sebastian Ilfoveanul, locum tenens bishop of the Bucharest Archiepiscopate. At 9:00, official delegations, including president Traian Basescu, will meet the church leaders for officials speeches.

The funeral ceremony itself will gather all important figures of the Romanian Orthodoxy, as well as patriarchs of the "Orthodox-sister" countries. It is scheduled to begin around 11:00. Friday, August 3, was approved by the Government as official mourning day.