Mihai Robu

Mihai Robu ( born April 10, 1884 in Săbăoani, county Neamt (Romania); † September 27, 1944 Beiuş Oakley Bihor county ), was from 1925 to 1944 Roman Catholic Bishop of Iaşi.

Life

He attended elementary school in his hometown and joined in 1894 at the age of ten years in the seminary in Iasi a. Ordained a deacon and on 7 April 1907 by Bishop Nicolae Iosif Camilli On November 19, 1906 priests, he was born on January 10, 1907 Prefect of the Seminary in Iasi. During the First World War, when the seminary closed, he was active in the community pastoral until he secretary of the Bishop Theodor Alexandru Cisar was 1920. At the same time he was prefect and teacher at the seminary in Iasi. In 1922, he took a pastorate again and was chaplain at the convent sisters of Our Lady of Sion, " Notre Dame de Sion " (NDS ) in Iasi.

On May 7, 1925, he was named by Pope Pius XI. Bishop of Iaşi. He was consecrated on 20 September 1925 in the chapel of the monastery of Notre Dame by Alexandru Theodor Cisar, Archbishop of Bucharest. Co-consecrators were the Romanian Greek-Catholic Bishop of Oradea Mare ( Oradea ), Valeriu Traian Frentiu, and the Romanian Greek-Catholic Bishop of Lugoj, Alexandru Nicolescu. His particular concern was the training of priests. He built churches, made ​​several trips to the canonical visitation of his parish and donated it the Sacrament of Confirmation.

In military operations, German and Hungarian organizations the seminary was destroyed in an air raid by the Red Army in March 1944. Bishop Robu was forced to leave the city. In a monastery of the Romanian Catholic Church in Beiuş, Bihor County, in the mountains, they found recording.

In early September he suffered a double pneumonia and died on 27 September 1944. Two days later he was buried in the cemetery of Beiuş. In 1964 the remains were exhumed and transferred to Iasi buried in the Cathedral " Assumption ".