Petru Pavel Aron
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Petru Pavel Aron (1709–1764) was an ethnic Romanian Greek-Catholic cleric and intellectual, the bishop of Alba Iulia and Făgăraş (Transylvania, present-day Romania).
Born in Bistra, Aron set up the first Romanian schools in Habsburg-ruled Transylvania at Blaj in 1754. He also translated the Biblia Vulgata into Romanian (1760–1761).
Heads of the Romanian Church United with Rome, Greek-Catholic | ||
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Bishops | Atanasie Anghel | Ioan Giurgiu Patachi | Inocenţiu Micu-Klein | Petru Pavel Aron | Atanasie Rednic | Grigore Maior | Ioan Bob | Ioan Lemeni | Alexandru Sterca-Şuluţiu | |
Metropolitans | Alexandru Sterca-Şuluţiu | Ioan Vancea | Victor Mihaly de Apşa | Vasile Suciu | Alexandru Nicolescu | Alexandru Rusu | banned under Communism | Alexandru Todea | Lucian Mureşan | |
Major Archbishops | Lucian Mureşan |