Alexandru Todea

His Eminence

Alexandru Todea
Cardinal, Archbishop of Făgăraș and Alba Iulia
ChurchRomanian Greek Catholic Church
ArchdioceseFăgăraș and Alba Iulia
Installed1990
Term ended20 July 1993
PredecessorAlexandru Nicolescu
SuccessorLucian Mureșan
Other post(s)Cardinal-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
Died22 May 2002(2002-05-22) (aged 89)
Târgu Mureș, Romania
BuriedCathedral of Blaj
NationalityRomanian
Alma materPontificio Collegio Urbano de Propaganda Fide

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.

Born into a peasant family, Todea 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 received his doctorate from the Pontificio Collegio Urbano de Propaganda Fide and returned to Romania in 1940.[1] He was created cardinal on 28 June 1991 and given the titular church of Sant'Atanasio a Via Tiburtina.[2]

Todea is buried at the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Blaj.

  1. ^ "Biography". www.bru.ro (in Romanian). Archived from the original on 2007-07-01.
  2. ^ "Cardinal Title S. Athanasii ad viam Tiburtinam". GCatholic.org.