# Alexandru Todea

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Romanian Greek-Catholic bishop

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 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 Alma mater Pontificio Collegio Urbano de Propaganda Fide

**Alexandru Todea** (5 June 1912, [Teleac](/source/Gorne%C8%99ti), [Mureș County](/source/Mure%C8%99_County)–22 May 2002, [Târgu Mureș](/source/T%C3%A2rgu_Mure%C8%99)) was a [Romanian](/source/Romania) [Greek-Catholic](/source/Romanian_Greek-Catholic_Uniate_Church) bishop of the [Alba Iulia Diocese](/source/Romanian_Greek_Catholic_Major_Archeparchy_of_F%C4%83g%C4%83ra%C8%99_and_Alba_Iulia) and later [cardinal](/source/Cardinal_(Catholicism)). He was also a victim of the [communist regime](/source/Socialist_Republic_of_Romania), suffering at [Jilava](/source/Jilava_Prison), [Sighet](/source/Sighet_Prison), and [Pitești](/source/Pite%C8%99ti_Prison) 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](/source/Reghin) and [Blaj](/source/Blaj), [Metropolitan bishop](/source/Metropolitan_bishop) [Vasile Suciu](/source/Vasile_Suciu_(bishop)) send him to pursue his [theological](/source/Theology) studies in [Rome](/source/Rome). He received his doctorate from the [Pontificio Collegio Urbano de Propaganda Fide](/source/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](/source/Titular_church) of [Sant'Atanasio a Via Tiburtina](/source/Sant'Atanasio_a_Via_Tiburtina).[2]

Todea is buried at the [Cathedral of the Holy Trinity](/source/Cathedral_of_the_Holy_Trinity%2C_Blaj) in [Blaj](/source/Blaj).

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-bio_1-0)** ["Biography"](https://web.archive.org/web/20070701175028/http://www.bru.ro/blaj/todea_co.asp). *www.bru.ro* (in Romanian). Archived from [the original](http://www.bru.ro/blaj/todea_co.asp) on 2007-07-01.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Cardinal Title S. Athanasii ad viam Tiburtinam"](http://www.gcatholic.org/churches/cardinal/120.htm). *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](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9789738018006](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/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](/source/OCLC_(identifier)) [31595331](https://www.worldcat.org/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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