Cornel Damian (born May 8, 1960) is a

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n cleric, auxiliary bishop of the

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. Born in

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, he moved with his family to

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, where he finished high school. His parents were

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, but as their church was banned under the

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, Damian was raised in the Roman Catholic tradition.Bucureştiul are un episcop auxiliar
at the Iaşi Roman Catholic Diocese site; accessed May 16, 2012 He attended the

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and was ordained a priest in 1986 at Saint Joseph's Cathedral in

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. He was assistant priest at the Cioplea Church and from 1987 to 1998 parish priest at another Bucharest parish. He began teaching moral theology in 1991 at a theological institute which opened that year. From 1998 to 2002 he studied canon law at the

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. In 2002 he was assigned to a new parish and began teaching canon law. In 2003, having been chosen auxiliary bishop by

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, he was consecrated

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of Iziriana at the Bucharest cathedral by Archbishop

Ioan Robu Ioan Robu (born November 6, 1944) is a Romanian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was Archbishop of Bucharest from 1990 to 2019. Biography Robu was born in Târgu Secuiesc, where his father, a native of Traian, Neamț County, had briefl ...

.Biography
at the Archdiocese of Bucharest site; accessed May 16, 2012

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