Vicar Bishop Samuel Bistrițeanul celebrates his name daytranslated

The Most Reverend Father Samuel Bistrițeanul, the Vicar Bishop of the Archdiocese of Vad, Feleac and Cluj, celebrates his name day on August 20, the feast of the Holy Prophet Samuel.

The Holy Prophet Samuel, the last judge of the people of Israel, lived over a thousand years before Christ. Raised by the high priest Eli, he called the Israelites back to God and anointed Saul and later David as kings.

Biography of the hierarch Reverend Father Samuel Bistrițeanul was born on December 25, 1963, in Ciuruleasa commune, Alba county, to parents George and Zorița Cristea, receiving the name John at baptism.

He attended secondary school in his hometown, then "Horea, Cloșca and Crișan" High School in Abrud (1978–1980). In the period 1980–1985 he was a student of the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Cluj-Napoca.

After completing the mandatory military training in Beiuș, Bihor county (1985–1986), he attended the Theological Institute of University Degree in Sibiu, where he obtained, in 1990, the license in Orthodox Theology, with the paper "The problem of intercommunion and its canonical implications", defended in Church Law, under the guidance of the professor...