Alexandru Todea

His Eminence Alexandru Todea
Cardinal, Archbishop of Făgăraș and Alba Iulia
Church	Romanian Greek Catholic Church
Archdiocese	Făgăraș and Alba Iulia
Installed	1990
Term ended	20 July 1993
Predecessor	Alexandru Nicolescu
Successor	Lucian Mureșan
Other post(s)	Cardinal-Priest of Sant'Atanasio a Via Tiburtina
Orders
Ordination	25 March 1939
Consecration	19 November 1950
Created cardinal	28 June 1991 by John Paul II
Rank	Cardinal-Priest
Personal details
Born	(1912-06-05)5 June 1912 Marostelek, Austria-Hungary
Died	22 May 2002(2002-05-22) (aged 89) Târgu Mureș, Romania
Buried	Cathedral of Blaj
Nationality	Romanian
Alma mater	Pontificio 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.

References

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.

• 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.