Alexandru Cisar
Alexandru Theodor Cisar (21 October 1880 – 7 January 1954) was a Romanian cleric, bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Iași and archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bucharest. Born in Bucharest, he entered that city's seminary in 1892. Sent to Rome in 1899, he was ordained a priest in 1903 at the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. Upon his return to Romania, he was named secretary to Archbishop and dean of students at the seminary. After a short time as parish priest at the Bucharest Bărăția and at the Craiova parish, he was named head of a school in Bucharest in 1918. In 1920, he was consecrated bishop at Saint Joseph's Cathedral, Bucharest, Saint Joseph's Cathedral and was installed in Iași. He reopened the seminary there that had shut down due to World War I. In 1921, the parishes of Bessarabia, Union of Bessarabia with Romania, recently united with Romania, were incorporated into his diocese. Following the retirement of Archbishop in 1924, ...
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