PS Samuel Bistrițeanul completes a year since he was ordained a bishoptranslated

The Most Reverend Father Samuel Bistrițeanul, Vicar Bishop of the Archdiocese of Vad, Feleac and Cluj, celebrates on Monday one year since he was ordained a bishop at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Cluj-Napoca.

The hierarch was born on December 25, 1963, in Ciuruleasa commune, Alba county, to parents George and Zorița Cristea, receiving the baptismal name John.

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.

University studies and entry into monahsim 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 Professor Ioan Floca.

In the period 1995–1996 he attended a German language course in Switzerland, at the Theologische Hochschule in der Benediktinerabtei Einsiedeln.

He was ordained a celibate deacon on August 5, 1990 and a priest a day later, on account of the Cathedral...