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    Nicolae Bălan (Romanian pronunciation: [nikoˈla.e bəˈlan]; April 27, 1882 – August 6, 1955) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian cleric, a metropolitan...
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  • player and coach Nicolae Bălan (1882–1955), Romanian metropolitan bishop Petru Bălan (born 1976), Romanian rugby player Tiberiu Bălan (born 1981), Romanian...
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    policies; so did a minority of influential high-ranking clergymen such as Nicolae Bălan or Vartolomeu Stănescu. Patriarch Miron Cristea, on the other hand,...
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    interred. Hundreds of Orthodox priests participated and Metropolitans Nicolae Bălan of Transylvania and Visarion Puiu of Bukovina held special services...
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    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...
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    Șintereag-Gară (Somkeréki állomás). Grigore Bălan (1896–1944), Brigadier General during World War II Nicolae Bălan (1882–1955), metropolitan bishop of the...
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    Octavian Goga (1937—1938) refused to serve. Metropolitan of Transylvania Nicolae Bălan, from August 20, 1940 Metropolitan of the Romanian Church United with...
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    director-producer Moyshe Altman (1890–1981), Yiddish writer Hermann Bahr Nicolae Bălan (1882–1955), Romanian cleric, a metropolitan bishop of the Romanian...
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    Transylvania Nicolae Bălan and representatives of other cults, led by Roman Catholic bishop Augustin Pacha and Greek Catholic bishop Ioan Bălan. During World...
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    returned to Bucharest, where he earned his degree in 1921. Encouraged by Nicolae Bălan, Metropolitan of Transylvania, he attended postgraduate courses in Protestant...
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    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...
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  • the church's Holy Synod approved an anti-Masonic study prepared by Nicolae Bălan, Metropolitan of Transylvania; this targeted Jews, who "have a preponderant...
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    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...
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    physicist, seismologist and meteorologist, professor of Harvard University. Nicolae Bălan (1882–1955) Romanian cleric, a metropolitan bishop of the Romanian Orthodox...
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    Ambrose becoming Bishop of Milan from civil administrator, professor Nicolae Bălan becoming Metropolitan of Transylvania, etc. On February 23, 1956, Vicar...
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    Miron Cristea, the Patriarch of All Romania, Nicolae Bălan, the Metropolitan of Transylvania, and Nicolae Ivan, the Bishop of Cluj. The opening ceremony...
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    Ecclesiastical Electoral College met at Bucharest, with Metropolitan Nicolae Bălan of Transylvania presiding (the Patriarch was resting at Neamţ Monastery)...
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    repaired between 1919 and 1922, and new bells were donated. Metropolitan Nicolae Bălan rededicated the church in 1923. A second Romanian church opened in Sfântu...
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    and statesman Niki Atanasiu [ro], actor Mihai Baicu, footballer Grigore Bălan, general in World War II Iolanda Balaș, athlete and Olympic champion Maria...
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    1937 sanctification ceremony was led by Romanian Orthodox Metropolitan Nicolae Bălan. The ceremony witnessed the presence of 40 priests; 2 ministers from...
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    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...
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    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...
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    has paintings of clerics from the time when the cathedral was built: Nicolae Bălan, Metropolitan of Transylvania, and Miron Cristea, Patriarch of All Romania...
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    Queen Helen, King Michael, the Orthodox Metropolitan of Transylvania Nicolae Bălan, Apostolic Nuncio Andrea Cassulo and Swiss Ambassador René de Weck are...
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  • from Transylvania. This movement, strongly supported by Metropolitan Nicolae Balan of Sibiu, spread widely throughout the western part of Romania. Members...
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  • Angheluță 1948 Axente Banciu 1948 Nicolae Bălan 1920 Mircea Cancicov 1937 Dimitrie Ciotori 1936 Negoiță Dănăilă 1939 Nicolae Donici 1922 Dionisie Germani 1945...
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    execution of longtime Romanian Communist Party (PCR) General Secretary Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife Elena, and the end of 42 years of Communist rule...
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  • Petru Vladimir Bălan (born 12 July 1976, in Suceava) is a Romanian retired rugby union footballer who played as a prop. Before moving to play rugby in...
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    (1968–1972) George Ciucu (1972–1981) Ioan-Ioviț Popescu (1981–1988) Ion Dodu Bălan (1989) Nicolaie D. Cristescu (1990–1992) Emil Constantinescu (1992–1996)...
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    which capacity he paid his respects to the recently deceased bishop, Nicolae Bălan. By one interpretation, Groza wanted to reactivate Cătărău as a Romanian...
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