Alexandru Todea

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Alexandru Todea (June 5, 1912, Teleac, Mureş County–May 22, 2002, Târgu-Mureş) was a Romanian Greek-Catholic bishop of the Alba Iulia Diocese and later cardinal. He was also a victim of the communist regime.

Born into a peasant family, he was the 13th of 16 children. After attending primary school in his native village, and high school in Reghin and Blaj, Metropolitan bishop Vasile Suciu send him to pursue his theological studies in Rome.

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(Romanian) Biography, at bru.ro
Valentin Borda and Mircea Borda, Alexandru Todea: protopop, episcop, mitropolit, cardinal în Biserica Română Unită cu Roma, Greco-Catolică, Târgu-Mureș: Casa de editură Petru Maior, 1999. ISBN 9789738018006
Silvestru Augustin Prunduş and Clemente Plăianu, Cardinalul Dr. Alexandru Todea: la 80 de ani (1912-1992), Ordinul Sfînful Vasile cel Mare, Provincia "Sf. Apostoli Petru si Pavel", 1992. OCLC 31595331
Silvestru Augustin Prunduş and Clemente Plăianu, Catolicism şi Ortodoxie Românească - scurt istoric al Bisericii Române Unit, Cluj-Napoca: Casa de Editură Viaţa Creştină, 1994.

v • d • e Heads of the Romanian Church United with Rome, Greek-Catholic

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

v • d • e Anti-Communist Metropolitans and Bishops in Romania

Greek Catholic	Vasile Aftenie \| Ioan Bălan \| Tit Liviu Chinezu \| Ioan Dragomir \| Ioan Duma \| Valeriu Traian Frenţiu \| Iuliu Hirtea \| Iuliu Hossu \| Ioan Ploscaru \| Alexandru Rusu \| Ioan Suciu \| Alexandru Todea

Roman Catholic	Szilárd Bogdánffy \| Adalbert Boros \| Alexandru Cisar \| Anton Durcovici \| Imre Erös \| Áron Márton \| Augustin Pacha \| Johannes Scheffler \| Joseph Schubert

Orthodox	Grigorie Leu \| Nicodim Munteanu \| Visarion Puiu