Alexandru Todea

Alexandru Todea (5 June 1912, Teleac, Mureş County–22 May 2002, Târgu-Mureş) was a Romanian Greek-Catholic bishop of the Alba Iulia Diocese and later cardinal. He was also a victim of the communist regime, suffering in Pitești prison.

Born into a peasant family, he 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 was created Cardinal-Priest on 28 June 1991 and given the titular church of Sant'Atanasio a Via Tiburtina.^[1]

References

• (Romanian) Biography, at bru.ro
• 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 Prunduş 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 Prunduş and Clemente Plăianu, Catolicism şi Ortodoxie Românească - scurt istoric al Bisericii Române Unite, Cluj-Napoca: Casa de Editură Viaţa Creştină, 1994.

Romanian Greek-Catholic Church hierarchy
Bishops	Atanasie Anghel Ioan Giurgiu Patachi Inocențiu Micu-Klein Petru Pavel Aron Atanasie Rednic Grigore Maior Ioan Bob Ioan Lemeni Alexandru Sterca-Șuluțiu
Metropolitans	Alexandru Sterca-Șuluțiu Ioan Vancea Victor Mihaly de Apșa Vasile Suciu Alexandru Nicolescu Alexandru Rusu banned under Communism Alexandru Todea Lucian Mureșan
Major Archbishops	Lucian Mureșan
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