Alexandru Todea

Alexandru Todea (5 June 1912, Teleac, Mureș County–22 May 2002, Târgu Mureș) was a Romanian Greek-Catholic bishop of the Alba Iulia Diocese and later cardinal. He was also a victim of the communist regime, suffering at Jilava, Sighet, and Pitești prisons.

His Eminence

Alexandru Todea
Cardinal, Archbishop of Făgăraș and Alba Iulia
ChurchRomanian Greek Catholic Church
ArchdioceseFăgăraș and Alba Iulia
Installed1990
Term ended20 July 1994
PredecessorAlexandru Nicolescu
SuccessorLucian Mureșan
Other postsCardinal-Priest of Sant’Atanasio a Via Tiburtina
Orders
Ordination25 March 1939
Consecration19 November 1950
Created cardinal28 June 1991
by John Paul II
RankCardinal-Priest
Personal details
Born(1912-06-05)5 June 1912
Teleac, Romania
Died22 May 2002(2002-05-22) (aged 89)
Târgu Mureș Romania
BuriedCathedral of Blaj
NationalityRomanian

Born into a peasant family, he was the 13th of 16 children. After attending primary school in his native village, and high school in Reghin and Blaj, Metropolitan bishop Vasile Suciu send him to pursue his theological studies in Rome. He was consecrated Cardinal-Priest on 28 June 1991 and given the titular church of Sant'Atanasio a Via Tiburtina.[1]

References
  1. Cardinal Title S. Athanasii ad viam Tiburtinam GCatholic.org
  • "Biography". www.bru.ro (in Romanian).
  • Valentin Borda and Mircea Borda, Alexandru Todea: protopop, episcop, mitropolit, cardinal în Biserica Română Unită cu Roma, Greco-Catolică, Târgu-Mureș: Casa de editură Petru Maior, 1999. ISBN 9789738018006
  • Silvestru Augustin Prunduș and Clemente Plăianu, Cardinalul Dr. Alexandru Todea: la 80 de ani (1912-1992), Ordinul Sfînful Vasile cel Mare, Provincia "Sf. Apostoli Petru si Pavel", 1992. OCLC 31595331
  • Silvestru Augustin Prunduș and Clemente Plăianu, Catolicism și Ortodoxie Românească – scurt istoric al Bisericii Române Unite, Cluj-Napoca: Casa de Editură Viața Creștină, 1994.


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