Bp. Nicolae Popovici (en)

He attended primary school at the Saxon School in Biertan, where he learned to speak German and Hungarian fluently, then went to the Grammar School in Dumbrăveni, the Normal School in Sibiu and the “Andrei Șaguna” Grammar School in Sibiu between 1923-1927, then to Cernăuți, where he graduated in theology in 1934. He was noticed by Metropolitan Nicolae Bălan, who sent him to study at the Faculty of Theology in Athens in 1927-1928, then to Munich, at the Faculty of Philosophy, in 1928-1930, and to Tübingen, Leipzig and Breslau in 1930-1932. In 1925, Nicolae Popovici made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, […]

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A remarkable figure of the Romanian Orthodox Church in the 20th century, Nicolae Popovici is relatively less known than he deserves to be. Born in 1903 in the commune of Biertan, in the former county of Târnava Mare, he completed his secondary education at the “Andrei Șaguna” high school in Brașov and his university studies at the Faculty of Theology in Cernăuți, where he also defended a brilliant doctoral thesis on the Eucharistic epiklesis. For a time he was a professor in Sibiu, and in April 1926 he was elected Bishop of Great Oradea. In his new capacity as bishop, […]

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Copy Confidential Blessed Nicolae Popovici, Bishop of Oradea, Legionary[1] Colleague and close friend of the professor-priest Dr. Liviu Stan, first advisor for cults to Horia Sima and Director General of the Ministry of Cults during the Legionary Movement, His Beatitude Nicolae Popovici is a supporter of the Legionary Movement, as is his Metropolitan Nicolae Bălan, from whose advice he never departed. It is in this Legionary spirit that the official pamphlet of the Diocese of Oradea, “The Romanian Law”, is written. Here are just two examples:

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131/12 January 1950 FILES Popovici Nicolae, Bishop of Oradea. He was born on 3 January 1903 in the commune of Biertan, Tr. Mare County. He graduated in theology from the Faculty of Theology in Chișinău, and after studies abroad in Athens, Munich, Leipzig, Breslau and Tübingen, he returned to the country and was appointed professor at the Theological Academy “Andrean” in Sibiu, where he worked from 1930 to 1936, when he was appointed Bishop of Oradea by royal decree. During the Antonescu dictatorship, Nicolae Popovici took part in the “religious mission” to Bessarabia, where he went with a team of […]

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Comrade Inspector, In my capacity as an official of the Romanian Orthodox Diocese of Oradea, I bring the following to your attention, so that you may communicate it to those who have the right to know and take the measures required by the circumstances. In 1949, the Most Holy Bishop Nicolae Popovici removed me from the diocese and placed me in the school of singers, in order to take revenge on me for my pro-Union stance.

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131/4 April 1950 NOTE Bishop Nicolae Popovici of Oradea came to Bucharest to obtain from the Ministry of Religious Worship “ready to print” for his Easter Pastoral, [and] in this connection stated on 28 March A.D. the following “The sects are giving me a hard time. They say that I have not respected the norm given by them, that is, I have not dealt with the three subjects I was supposed to address:

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Note, Last month, Bishop Nicolae Popovici of Oradea made new anti-democratic manifestations: On the first day of Easter, instead of reading his own pastoral, as the Patriarch had decided, he delivered a sermon with anti-democratic undertones in the cathedral of Oradea, from which we quote:

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Note, The Bishop of Oradea, Nicolae Popovici, who has in the past made numerous statements of incitement, continues to do so today. Thus, on the occasion of a procession that took place at the Izbuc-Bihor monastery, in the presence of about 1,000 believers, Popovici said that “today” the leaders are not with God and do not believe in Him; these people will not succeed in their plans, because without God nothing can be done.

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July 18, 1946 “Viator” NICOLAE POPOVICI Bishop of Oradea Mare He was born in 1903 in Biertan, Târnava Mare County. He studied at the Andrei Șaguna High School in Brașov, at the Theological Academy in Sibiu and at the Faculty of Theology in Cernăuți. He then undertook further specialised studies in Athens, Munich, Leipzig and Wroclaw. Having thus acquired a thorough theological and general education, he was appointed professor at the Theological Academy in Sibiu and was a monk-cleric. On 28 April 1936 he was elected bishop of the diocese of Oradea Mare. On 1 June 1936 he was ordained […]

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