Cornel Damian

His Excellency Cornel Damian
Auxiliary Bishop of Bucharest
Church	Roman Catholic
Archdiocese	Bucharest
Appointed	31 October 2003
Installed	8 December 2003
Orders
Ordination	22 June 1986
Consecration	8 December 2003 by Ioan Robu
Personal details
Born	(1960-05-08) May 8, 1960 Jibou, Romania
Nationality	Romanian
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Cornel Damian (born May 8, 1960) is a Romanian cleric, auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bucharest. Born in Jibou, he moved with his family to Drobeta-Turnu Severin, where he finished high school. His parents were Greek-Catholic, but as their church was banned under the communist regime, Damian was raised in the Roman Catholic tradition. He attended the Roman Catholic Theological Institute of Iași and was ordained a priest in 1986 at Saint Joseph's Cathedral in Bucharest. He was assistant priest at the Cioplea Church and from 1987 to 1998 parish priest at another Bucharest parish. He began teaching moral theology in 1991 at a theological institute which opened that year. From 1998 to 2002 he studied canon law at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. In 2002 he was assigned to a new parish and began teaching canon law. In 2003, having been chosen auxiliary bishop by Pope John Paul II, he was consecrated titular bishop of Iziriana at the Bucharest cathedral by Archbishop Ioan Robu.

External links

• Biography in the Archdiocese of Bucharest Archived 2008-10-21 at the Wayback Machine
• Catholic Hierarchy – Bishop Cornel Damian