Nicolae Bălan
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Nicolae Bălan
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Nicolae Bălan was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian cleric, a metropolitan bishop of the Romanian Orthodox Church. The son of a priest, he graduated from Czernowitz University and taught theology at Sibiu from 1905 to 1920. That year, he became Metropolitan of Transylvania, an office he would hold for the rest of his life. In the 1930s, he was an open supporter of the Iron Guard. In 1942, during the Holocaust, he intervened in Bucharest against the planned deportation of Romanian Jews from the R
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Metropolitan bishop of the Romanian Orthodox Church (1882 - 1955)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae_B%C4%83lan
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2014-10-15T00:02:23Z
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2024-09-04T03:02:06Z
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