Ioan Robu

His Excellency
Ioan Robu
S.T.D.
Archbishop of Bucharest
Appointed March 14, 1990
Predecessor Alexandru Theodor Cisar
Successor incumbent
Other posts Apostolic Administrator of Bucharest (1984–1990)
Titular Bishop of Cellae in Proconsulari (1984–1990)
Orders
Ordination August 15, 1968
Consecration December 8, 1984
by Agostino Casaroli
Personal details
Born (1944-11-06) November 6, 1944
Târgu Secuiesc, Romania
Nationality Romanian
Denomination Roman Catholic
Residence Bucharest, Romania
Alma mater Alphonsian Academy of the Pontifical Lateran University
Motto Et veritas liberavit vos (English: And the truth will make you free),(John 8:32)[1]
Coat of arms
Ordination history of
Ioan Robu
History
Priestly ordination
Ordained by Petru Pleșca
Date August 15, 1968
Episcopal consecration
Principal consecrator Agostino Cardinal Casaroli
Co-consecrators Luigi Cardinal Pogi,
Archbishop Mario Schierano
Date December 8, 1984
Episcopal succession
Bishops consecrated by Ioan Robu as principal consecrator
Cornel Damian December 8, 2003

Ioan Robu (born November 6, 1944) is a Romanian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He is the sixth and current Archbishop of Bucharest.

Robu was born in Târgu Secuiesc, where his father, a native of Traian, Neamț County, had briefly come to work. A graduate of the Roman Catholic Theological Institute of Iași, he was ordained to the priesthood on August 15, 1968. He then served at the Roman Catholic parish in Craiova and at Saint Joseph's Cathedral in Bucharest. Studying in Rome at the Pontifical Lateran University's Alphonsian Academy from 1973 to 1977, he obtained a Doctor of Sacred Theology degree. During the summer of 1977, he was parish priest in Buzău, and from that year until 1983, was director of his alma mater in Iaşi.[2]

He was elected diocesan administrator on December 1, 1983 and apostolic administrator and bishop on October 25, 1984 before being consecrated titular bishop of Cellae in Proconsulari on December 8, 1984 in Rome by Cardinal Secretary of State Agostino Casaroli. He was raised to the rank of archbishop on April 29, 1990, in the presence of Archbishop Angelo Sodano, representative of Pope John Paul II.[2]

Notes

  1. ↑ http://arcb.ro/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1452&Itemid=179/ Accessed March 6, 2013
  2. 1 2 (in Romanian) Biography Archived August 7, 2010, at the Wayback Machine. at the Archdiocese of Bucharest site; accessed September 7, 2010
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