Anton Coşa (born November 23, 1961) is a

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n cleric, bishop of the

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Early life

Anton Coșa was born on November 23, 1961 in a family of farmers, in the village of Valea Mare in the Faraoani commune, then located in the

Bacău County Bacău County () is a county ( județ) of Romania, in Western Moldavia, with its capital city at Bacău. It has one commune, Ghimeș-Făget, in Transylvania. Geography This county has a total area of . In the western part of the county the ...

. His family also gave two other priest brothers, Fr. Eduard Coșa from Bacău and Fr. Francisc Coșa from Bucharest. He attended primary school in his native village, and then high school in Hemeiuș commune in

Biography

In 1989, he graduated from the Roman Catholic Theological Institute of Iași, and that June was ordained a priest by Bucharest Archbishop

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, for the Iaşi Diocese. From 1989 to 1990, he was the assistant priest at

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, and from 1990 to 1991 in Chişinău. In 1991, he became the parish priest, remaining there until he was named

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for Moldova in 1993. In October 1999,

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named him as the

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, later consecrating him at

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the following January. He was named as the inaugural Bishop of Chişinău in 2001.

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