Siluan Mănuilă

Siluan Mănuilă (born 16 September 1971) is a bishop of the Romanian Orthodox Church, and since 2007, bishop of the Diocese of Gyula.[1]

Siluan Mănuilă
Siluan Mănuilă at the Romanian Orthodox Cathedral Saint Nicholas in Gyula
ChurchRomanian Orthodox Church
DioceseGyula
Installed2007
PredecessorSofronie Drincec
Personal details
Birth nameCristian Constantin Manuilă
Born(1971-09-16)September 16, 1971
Chelmac, Romania
DenominationEastern Orthodox Church
ProfessionTheologian

He completed his secondary education in Arad, Romania, continuing his theological studies in Sibiu and later in Athens, Greece. He went to Hungary in 1999, after the election of Sofronie Drincec as bishop of the Diocese of Gyula. In 2002, Mănuilă was named hegumen of the skete Adormirea Maicii Domnului (Assumption of the Virgin Mary) in Körösszakál. In 2003 he was appointed archimandrite and received the patriarchal cross, and until 2007 he was the cultural assessor of the Diocese of Gyula. Mănuilă was elected bishop of the diocese on 11 March 2007, taking office on July 8.[1]

In 2017, Mănuilă became leader of the Diocese of Dacia Felix in Serbia for one year due to health problems of the previous bishop, Daniil Stoenescu.[2]

References
  1. "INTERVIU/ PS Siluan Mănuilă: „Comunitatea românească din Ungaria se încăpățănează să existe"". NewsAr.ro (in Romanian). 24 June 2014.
  2. Anghel, Gheorghe (4 August 2017). "PS Siluan al Ungariei – locţiitor al Episcopiei Dacia Felix. Ierarhul a oficiat prima vizită în Eparhie". Basilica News Agency (in Romanian).


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