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Place of Birth: Săbăoani, Neamț County, Romania
About Mihai Robu
- Mihai Robu (April 10, 1884 – September 27, 1944) was a Romanian cleric, bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Iasi.
- Born in Sabaoani, Neamt County, He entered the Roman Catholic Theological Institute of Ia?i in 1894, being ordained deacon in 1906 and priest in 1907.
- For several years, starting before his priestly ordination, he was in charge of the Iasi seminarians.
- During World War I, when the seminary was closed, he was a parish priest at Valeni, Faraoani and Bacau.
- In 1920, he returned to teach when the seminary reopened, and was named secretary to Bishop Alexandru Cisar.
- In 1922, he was named parish priest at Horle?ti and chaplain at an Iasi monastery.
- In 1925, he was consecrated Bishop of Iasi by Cisar.
- Among his activities were the building of numerous churches, special attention to the seminary and the opening of a new one at Luizi-Calugara, support for the Catholic press and many visits to parishes in the diocese.
- In March 1944, due to the approach of the Eastern Front, he closed the seminary and withdrew with the students to Beiu?.
- Meeting with repression from the German and Hungarian armies, he went to the mountains at Fini? in mid-September.
- He caught double pneumonia and soon died.
- Buried in Beius, his remains were moved to the old Roman Catholic cathedral in Iasi in 1964.
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