• Thumbnail for Nicolae Bălan
    Nicolae Bălan (Romanian pronunciation: [nikoˈla.e bəˈlan]; April 27, 1882 – August 6, 1955) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian cleric, a metropolitan...
    11 KB (1,136 words) - 03:02, 4 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Relationship between the Romanian Orthodox Church and the Iron Guard
    policies; so did a minority of influential high-ranking clergymen such as Nicolae Bălan or Vartolomeu Stănescu. Patriarch Miron Cristea, on the other hand,...
    60 KB (8,279 words) - 09:37, 3 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for Romanian Orthodox Church
    interred. Hundreds of Orthodox priests participated and Metropolitans Nicolae Bălan of Transylvania and Visarion Puiu of Bukovina held special services...
    55 KB (6,100 words) - 15:38, 23 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for Chernivtsi
    director-producer Moyshe Altman (1890–1981), Yiddish writer Hermann Bahr Nicolae Bălan (1882–1955), Romanian cleric, a metropolitan bishop of the Romanian...
    100 KB (9,845 words) - 13:53, 13 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for Arsenie Boca
    experience. Boca was made a deacon on 29 September 1935 by Metropolitan Nicolae Bălan of Transylvania. In 1939 he spent three months in the Romanian Skete...
    12 KB (1,195 words) - 22:30, 9 April 2025
  • player and coach Nicolae Bălan (1882–1955), Romanian metropolitan bishop Petru Bălan (born 1976), Romanian rugby player Tiberiu Bălan (born 1981), Romanian...
    1 KB (205 words) - 21:19, 25 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Timișoara Orthodox Cathedral
    Transylvania Nicolae Bălan and representatives of other cults, led by Roman Catholic bishop Augustin Pacha and Greek Catholic bishop Ioan Bălan. During World...
    14 KB (1,550 words) - 20:23, 14 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nicolae Colan
    returned to Bucharest, where he earned his degree in 1921. Encouraged by Nicolae Bălan, Metropolitan of Transylvania, he attended postgraduate courses in Protestant...
    12 KB (1,218 words) - 13:12, 20 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Crown Council of Romania
    Octavian Goga (1937—1938) refused to serve. Metropolitan of Transylvania Nicolae Bălan, from August 20, 1940 Metropolitan of the Romanian Church United with...
    10 KB (413 words) - 14:21, 7 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Patriarch Iustin of Romania
    Ambrose becoming Bishop of Milan from civil administrator, professor Nicolae Bălan becoming Metropolitan of Transylvania, etc. On February 23, 1956, Vicar...
    18 KB (2,102 words) - 10:40, 18 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dormition of the Theotokos Cathedral, Cluj-Napoca
    Miron Cristea, the Patriarch of All Romania, Nicolae Bălan, the Metropolitan of Transylvania, and Nicolae Ivan, the Bishop of Cluj. The opening ceremony...
    5 KB (348 words) - 23:30, 6 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dumitru Stăniloae
    after one year. He was offered a fellowship by metropolitan bishop Nicolae Bălan at the Metropolitan Center in Sibiu in 1924 during Lent. Stăniloae graduated...
    24 KB (2,570 words) - 09:49, 11 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for Ion Antonescu
    Queen Helen, King Michael, the Orthodox Metropolitan of Transylvania Nicolae Bălan, Apostolic Nuncio Andrea Cassulo and Swiss Ambassador René de Weck are...
    241 KB (31,081 words) - 22:53, 11 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for Patriarch Justinian of Romania
    Ecclesiastical Electoral College met at Bucharest, with Metropolitan Nicolae Bălan of Transylvania presiding (the Patriarch was resting at Neamţ Monastery)...
    22 KB (2,782 words) - 02:31, 4 September 2024
  • the church's Holy Synod approved an anti-Masonic study prepared by Nicolae Bălan, Metropolitan of Transylvania; this targeted Jews, who "have a preponderant...
    12 KB (1,303 words) - 10:28, 5 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Coronation Cathedral, Alba Iulia
    has paintings of clerics from the time when the cathedral was built: Nicolae Bălan, Metropolitan of Transylvania, and Miron Cristea, Patriarch of All Romania...
    12 KB (1,184 words) - 21:20, 6 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sâmbăta de Sus Monastery
    the property from the Brâncoveanu family to the Sibiu Archdiocese. Nicolae Bălan, then Sibiu's archbishop as well as Metropolitan of Transylvania, decided...
    5 KB (536 words) - 15:57, 13 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for Holy Trinity Church, Sighișoara
    1937 sanctification ceremony was led by Romanian Orthodox Metropolitan Nicolae Bălan. The ceremony witnessed the presence of 40 priests; 2 ministers from...
    4 KB (381 words) - 05:41, 7 November 2024
  • from Transylvania. This movement, strongly supported by Metropolitan Nicolae Balan of Sibiu, spread widely throughout the western part of Romania. Members...
    11 KB (998 words) - 01:37, 12 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for Chernivtsi University
    physicist, seismologist and meteorologist, professor of Harvard University. Nicolae Bălan (1882–1955), Romanian cleric, a metropolitan bishop of the Romanian...
    23 KB (2,357 words) - 08:53, 20 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for Gheorghe Bogdan-Duică
    Cathedral and officiated by Nicolae Bălan. Among the eulogists were Alexandru Lapedatu, Florian Ștefănescu-Goangă and Nicolae Colan. Vedinaș, p. 64 Ioan...
    19 KB (2,356 words) - 10:54, 2 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Wayside crosses in Romania
    Șelimbăr near Sibiu; a lavish ceremony was organized by ASTRA and led by Nicolae Bălan. From the following year, another cross marked his grave at Turda. Others...
    17 KB (1,267 words) - 21:29, 1 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Visarion Puiu
    to Neamț Monastery for several months and Nicolae Bălan acted as de facto head of the church. Puiu and Bălan had known disagreements. Surviving intelligence...
    47 KB (6,147 words) - 11:15, 27 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mihai Balan
    Cyprus (2010 – 2011). Bălan was the Foreign Policy Advisor to the President of Moldova (December 15, 2009 - August 2010). Mihai Balan was born on 15 February...
    8 KB (609 words) - 03:27, 14 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for Șintereag
    Șintereag-Gară (Somkeréki állomás). Grigore Bălan (1896–1944), Brigadier General during World War II Nicolae Bălan (1882–1955), metropolitan bishop of the...
    2 KB (84 words) - 09:51, 3 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Eugen Filotti
    diplomatic channels to Bucharest. Another active factor in this set-up was Nicolae Bălan, metropolite of Transylvania, whom Eugen Filotti met in Sibiu each time...
    55 KB (7,224 words) - 07:36, 30 March 2025
  • historian, literary critic titular member 1994 Nicolae Bălan 1882–1955 metropolitan honorary member 1920 Ștefan Bălan 1913–1991 engineer titular member 1963 Mihai...
    91 KB (33 words) - 17:33, 23 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ilie Cătărău
    which capacity he paid his respects to the recently deceased bishop, Nicolae Bălan. By one interpretation, Groza wanted to reactivate Cătărău as a Romanian...
    63 KB (7,512 words) - 13:39, 10 March 2025
  • Economics and Society: Political Stagnation and Simulated Change, p. 36 Petru Bălan, Cristian (2008). Imnurile de stat ale țărilor din Uniunea Europeană (in...
    5 KB (178 words) - 11:15, 15 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Romanian Orthodox Mission in Transnistria
    to Neamț Monastery for several months and Nicolae Bălan acted as de facto head of the church. Puiu and Bălan had known disagreements. Surviving intelligence...
    13 KB (1,678 words) - 18:05, 2 March 2025