15 April <\/p>\n
1967 – Metropolitan COLAN NICOLAE passed away (buried at S\u00e2mb\u0103ta <\/p>\n
Monastery). He was born on 28 November 1893, in Araci, county of <\/p>\n
Covasna. <\/p>\n
Studies at “Andrei \u0218aguna” high school in Bra\u0219ov, at <\/p>\n
the Theological Institute of Sibiu, Faculty of Philology of Bucharest, <\/p>\n
specialisation at the Faculty of Protestant Theology of the University <\/p>\n
of Berlin 81921 – 1922). Professor of the New Testament at the <\/p>\n
“Andreian” Theological Academy of Sibiu (1922-1936), rector of the <\/p>\n
Academy (1928 – 1936), editor of the “Theological magazine” (1923 – <\/p>\n
1936) and of the “Illustrated Life” magazine (1934 – 1940), general <\/p>\n
secretary of the clergy association of “Andrei \u0218aguna”, member of the <\/p>\n
Astra Central Committee, president of the craftsmen meeting of Sibiu; <\/p>\n
priest in 1934. On 29 April 1936, elected Bishop of Cluj (installed on <\/p>\n
29 June 1936), where he served for 21 years (as well as during the <\/p>\n
hortyst occupation), and from 1957 till his death, Archbishop of Sibiu <\/p>\n
and Metropolitan of Transylvania. Minister of National Education, <\/p>\n
Religious Affairs and Arts (1938); member of honour (1938), then titular<\/p>\n
(1942) of the Romanian Academy, a position he lost in 1948, during the <\/p>\n
communist regime. <\/p>\n
Works: Saint Paul to Filimon or Christianity <\/p>\n
and Slavery (1925), Book of Saint Paul the Apostle to Ephesians 81929); <\/p>\n
Bible and Intellectuals (1929), Medallions (1940), etc; Translations <\/p>\n
from Fr. W. Foerster, Christ and Human Life (2 volumes, 1925; 2nd <\/p>\n
edition in 1946) and Emil Fiedler, the New Man (1941); he re-edited the <\/p>\n
New Testament in Cluj (1942 and 1945), after the Bible edition of Andrei<\/p>\n
\u0218aguna. <\/p>\n
Posthumous: Pastoral letters, Orthodox Theology and <\/p>\n
Spirituality (1998). He published specialised studies, translations, <\/p>\n
reviews, notes – especially in the two magazines he ran, over 500 tiles.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
15 April 1967 – Metropolitan COLAN NICOLAE passed away (buried at S\u00e2mb\u0103ta Monastery). He was born on 28 November 1893, in Araci, county of Covasna. Studies at “Andrei \u0218aguna” high school in Bra\u0219ov, at the Theological Institute of Sibiu, Faculty of Philology of Bucharest, specialisation at the Faculty of Protestant Theology of the University of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anniversaries-and-commemorations"],"yoast_head":"\n