Dr.Dr. Adalbert (Béla) Boros (September 20, 1908 – June 6, 2003) was a Romanian Roman Catholic prelate of Hungarian ethnicity, Auxiliary Bishop of the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Timișoara The Roman Catholic Diocese of Timișoara ( hu, Temesvári Római Katolikus Püspökség) is a diocese in Romania established on 5 June 1930 by Pope Pius XI. The Diocese of Cenad, corresponding to approximately the same region, had been created in ...

. Born in a Hungarian family in Pădureni, now part of Chişineu-Criş, he graduated from the

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and was ordained a priest in 1932. He taught philosophy and dogma at the theological seminary in

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before becoming rector. In 1948, following the advent of the

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, he was named auxiliary bishop of Timișoara and was secretly consecrated in

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. Together with Bishop

Augustin Pacha Augustin Pacha (November 26, 1870—November 4, 1954) was a Romanian cleric, the first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Timișoara. Born into a Banat Swabian family in Măureni (''Moritzfeld''), Caraș-Severin County, he was the twelfth ...

and other prominent Catholics, he was arrested, given a

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and sentenced to life imprisonment. Released in 1964, he was not allowed to perform the duties of a bishop until the fall of the regime, instead having to work as a chaplain in Timișoara. In 1990,

Pope John Paul II Pope John Paul II ( la, Ioannes Paulus II; it, Giovanni Paolo II; pl, Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his ...

named him

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of Ressiana. He died in 2003.Dr. Adalbert Boros (1908 - 2003)
at the Timișoara Roman Catholic Diocese site; accessed May 15, 2012

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