Bishop Lucian of Caransebeș celebrates his name daytranslated

The Most Reverend Father Lucian, the Bishop of Caransebeș, celebrates his name on Thursday, on the feast of the Holy Martyr Lucian, priest from Antioch.

The hierarch was born on September 9, 1970 in the municipality of Arad. In the period 1987–1992, he attended the "Bishop Ioan Popasu" Theological Seminary in Caransebeș, and in 1996 he graduated from the Faculty of Theology in Arad.

On February 19, 2013, he defended his doctoral thesis in theology at the University of Craiova, in the field of Church History, with the paper entitled The Relations of the Romanian Orthodox Church in Banat with the Serbian Orthodox Church in the second half of the 19th century.

In 1990 he began as a monk at the Hodoș-Bodrog Monastery in Arad county. In 1992 he was ordained a deacon, and then a priest at the same monastery.

In 1995, he was appointed abbot of the Izvorul-Miron Romanesti Monastery in Timiș County. In 1999 he was ordained Protosinghel and appointed Exarch of the monasteries of the Archdiocese of Timișoara, and in January 2000 he was ordained archimandrite.

Vicar Bishop of the Archdiocese of Timisoara In September 2000, at the proposal of His Holiness Father Nicolae, Metropolitan...