Mihai Robu (10 April 1884 – 27 September 1944) was a

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n cleric, bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Iași. Born in

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, He entered the

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in 1894, being ordained deacon in 1906 and priest in 1907. For several years, starting before his priestly ordination, he was in charge of the Iași seminarians. During

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, when the seminary was closed, he was a parish priest at Văleni, Faraoani and

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. In 1920, he returned to teach when the seminary reopened, and was named secretary to Bishop Alexandru Cisar. In 1922, he was named parish priest at Horlești and chaplain at an Iași monastery. In 1925, he was consecrated Bishop of Iași by Cisar. Among his activities were the building of numerous churches, special attention to the seminary and the opening of a new one at

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, support for the Catholic press and many visits to parishes in the diocese.Iași: Comemorarea episcopului Mihai Robu
at the Iași Roman Catholic Diocese site; accessed 11 May 2012 In March 1944, due to the approach of the Eastern Front, he closed the seminary and withdrew with the students to

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. Meeting with repression from the German and Hungarian armies, he went to the mountains at

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in mid-September. He caught double pneumonia and soon died. Buried in Beiuș, his remains were moved to the old Roman Catholic cathedral in Iași in 1964.

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