Chișinău Theological Seminary

Chișinău Theological Seminary was a seminary in Chișinău.[1] Gavril Bănulescu-Bodoni opened the Romanian-language seminary on January 31, 1813.[2][3]

History

On 1 September 1918, Visarion Puiu became director of the Chișinău Theological Seminary, being named Exarch of Bessarabia's monasteries two months later (soon after that province united with the Kingdom of Romania).[4][5]

Notes

  1. ↑ (Romanian) Catalogul
  2. ↑ Ion Nistor, Istoria Basarabiei, Humanitas, 1991, p.228. ISBN 973-28-0283-9
  3. ↑ Iurie Colesnic, (1997). Chișinău. Enciclopedie. Chișinău: ed. „Museum”. pp. p. 411–412
  4. ↑ (Romanian) Romanian Metropolitan Visarion Puiu, by Protohierarch Sorin Petcu, Müllheim, July 2006
  5. ↑ (Romanian) Visarion Puiu in the Dictionary of Romanian Theologians

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