Andrei Magieru (born Aurelian Magieru; June 27, 1891–May 13, 1960) was an

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-born Romanian cleric who became a bishop within the Romanian Orthodox Church. Born into a priest's family in Saturău,

Arad County Arad County () is an administrative division ( judeţ) of Romania roughly translated into county in the western part of the country on the border with Hungary, mostly in the region of Crișana and few villages in Banat. The administrative center ...

, in the Crișana region, Magieru attended a gymnasium in Arad and Beiuș. He then attended the theology faculty at

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from 1909 to 1913, obtaining a doctorate in 1916. He began but did not complete studies at the literature faculty of

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. From 1914 to 1917, he was rector of the diocesan boarding school in Beiuș. From 1917 to 1921, he was secretary of the Orthodox consistory at

Oradea Oradea (, , ; german: Großwardein ; hu, Nagyvárad ) is a city in Romania, located in Crișana, a sub-region of Transylvania. The county seat, seat of Bihor County, Oradea is one of the most important economic, social and cultural centers in the ...

. He took part in the events surrounding the union of Transylvania with Romaniaand served as Bihor County delegate to the foreign military mission at Oradea. From 1921 to 1926, he was an adviser to the new Oradea Diocese."Andrei Magieru"
, entry in Mircea Păcurariu, ''Dicționarul Teologilor Români'', Editura Univers Enciclopedic, Bucharest, 1996 In 1918, Magieru was ordained a celibate deacon, becoming a priest in 1922. In 1924, he was made a monk at

Sinaia Monastery The Sinaia Monastery, located in Sinaia, in Prahova County, Romania, was founded by Prince Mihail Cantacuzino in 1695 and named after the great Saint Catherine's Monastery on Mount Sinai in Egypt. As of 2005, it is inhabited by 13 Christian Or ...

, taking the name ''Andrei''. Later that year, he became '' protosyncellus'', rising to archimandrite in 1925. In 1926, he became vicar bishop of Oradea, taking the title ''Crișanul'' and serving under Roman Ciorogariu. Meanwhile, he edited the diocesan newsletter ''Legea Românească'' from 1921 to 1923. From that year until 1936, he was a rector and professor of New Testament studies at the Oradea theological academy. Elected Bishop of Arad in December 1935, Magieru was enthroned the following February, remaining until his death. In 1936, he joined Patriarch Miron Cristea on a delegation to England. In 1951, he was part of a group that visited the

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. Between 1941 and 1944, during The Holocaust, he safeguarded a number of Jews. His works include a lithographed New Testament course, as well as articles, sermons, reviews, and pastoral letters in ''Legea Românească'' and, at Arad, ''Biserica și Școala''.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Magieru, Andrei 1891 births 1960 deaths People from Arad County Romanian Austro-Hungarians Bishops of the Romanian Orthodox Church Chernivtsi University alumni