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Anton Coșa (born November 23, 1961) is a
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n cleric, bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Chișinău in
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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,
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. His family also gave two other priest brothers, Fr. Eduard Coșa from
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and Fr. Francisc Coșa from
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. He attended primary school in his native village, and then high school in Hemeiuș commune in Bacău County.


Biography

In 1989, he graduated from the Roman Catholic Theological Institute of Iași, and that June was ordained a priest by Bucharest Archbishop Ioan Robu, for the Iași Diocese. From 1989 to 1990, he was the assistant priest at Roman, and from 1990 to 1991 in
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. 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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of
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, later consecrating him at
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the following January. He was named as the inaugural Bishop of Chișinău in 2001.


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Living people 1961 births People from Bacău County Moldovan Roman Catholic bishops 20th-century Roman Catholic titular bishops Romanian expatriates in Moldova {{Moldova-bio-stub