Mihai Frățilă

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Mihai Cătălin Frăṭilă (born December 10, 1970 in Alba Iulia ) is a Romanian clergyman. He is Bishop of the Eparchy of Saint Basil the Great in Bucharest of the Romanian Catholic Church united with Rome .

Life

Mihai Frăṭilă studied at the seminary in Blaj , at the Urbaniana and Gregoriana as well as at the Pontifical Oriental Institute (PIO) in Rome . On August 11, 1996, he was ordained a priest in Blaj . During his postgraduate studies in liturgical science at the Institut Catholique de Paris (ICP) , he worked as a priest in the Romanian Catholic parish of Paris from 1996 to 1998. In 1999 he became Vice Rector of the Romanian Pontifical College "Pio Romeno" in Rome, and from 2005 its Rector.

After the election on June 20, 2007 by the Romanian Catholic Synod of Bishops, Pope Benedict XVI appointed him . on October 27, 2007 titular bishop of Novae and appointed him auxiliary bishop in the major archbishopric of Făgăraş and Alba Iulia . The episcopal ordination donated him the Major Archbishop of the Romanian Catholic Church, Lucian Mureşan , on December 16, 2007. Co- consecrators were Virgil Bercea , Bishop of Oradea , and Alexandru Mesian , Bishop of Lugoj . On May 4, 2008, he was ceremoniously inaugurated in the state capital Bucharest.

When he was ordained, Frăṭilă was the youngest bishop of the Catholic Church at the age of 37.

In 2008 Frăṭilă donated the episcopal ordination to Dimitrios Salachas, the appointed bishop of the Greek Catholic Exarchate of Greece .

On May 29, 2014 he was appointed the first bishop of the Eparchy of Saint Basil the Great in Bucharest , which was established on the same date . The inauguration took place on August 30 of the same year.

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Works

  • Mihai Frățilă: L'itinéraire baptismal de la pureté: aspects de purification dans le rituel de baptême de la tradition byzantine . Ed. Viata Crestina, Cluj-Napoca 2001. ISBN 973-9288-37-5
  • Mihai Frăṭilă (Ed.): Vivere il Regno di Dio al servizio degli altri. Miscellanea in onore del P. Olivier Raquez OSB . Galaxia Gutenberg, Cluj-Napoca 2008. ISBN 978-973-141-025-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.oki-regensburg.de/dimitri.htm "Sermon of Bishop Dimitrios on the day of his ordination in Athens, Saturday, May 24, 2008"