Mihai Robu

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Mihai Robu (born April 10, 1884 in Săbăoani , Neamț County ( Romania ); † September 27, 1944 Beiuș -Oakley Bihor County ), was Roman Catholic Bishop of Iași from 1925 to 1944 .

Life

He attended elementary school in his hometown and entered the seminary in Iași in 1894 at the age of ten . Ordained a deacon on November 19, 1906 and on April 7, 1907 by Bishop Nicolae Iosif Camilli as a priest , he was on January 10, 1907 prefect of the seminary in Iași. During the First World War , when the seminary was closed, he was active in the parish ministry until he became secretary to Bishop Alexandru Theodor Cisar in 1920 . At the same time he was prefect and teacher at the seminary in Iași. In 1922 he took over a pastor again and was house chaplain in the monastery of Sisters of Our Lady of Sion "Notre Dame de Sion" (NDS) in Iași.

On May 7, 1925, Pope Pius XI appointed him . to the Bishop of Iași. It was consecrated on September 20, 1925 in the chapel of the Notre Dame monastery by Alexandru Theodor Cisar, Archbishop of Bucharest . Co -consecrators were the Romanian Greek Catholic Bishop of Oradea Mare (Greater Oradine) , Valeriu Traian Frențiu , and the Romanian Greek Catholic Bishop of Lugoj , Alexandru Nicolescu . His special concern was the formation of priests. He had churches built, made several trips for canonical visits to his parishes and donated the company sacrament .

Epitaph in the Assumption Cathedral in Iași

During military operations by German and Hungarian units, the seminary was destroyed in an air raid by the Red Army in March 1944. Bishop Robu was forced to leave the city. They were accepted into a monastery of the Romanian Catholic Church in Beiuș , Bihor County , in the mountains.

At the beginning of September he contracted bilateral pneumonia and died on September 27, 1944. Two days later he was buried in the Beiuş cemetery. In 1964 the remains were exhumed and transferred to Iași and buried in the Cathedral of the Assumption of Mary.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Annuaire Pontifical Catholique, year 1939
  2. ^ Revue des Ordinations Épiscopales, Issue 1925, Number 51
  3. ↑ Biography on the homepage of the Diocese of Iași
predecessor Office successor
Alexandru Theodor Cisar Bishop of Iași
1925–1944 		Anton Durcovici
personal data
SURNAME Robu, Mihai
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman Catholic Bishop of Jassy
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Săbăoani
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1944
Place of death Beiuș -Oakley