Nicolae Bălan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Nicolae Bălan

Date of Birth: 27-Apr-1882

Place of Birth: Blăjenii de Sus, Bistrița-Năsăud County, Romania

Date of Death: 06-Aug-1955

Profession: politician, presbyter

Nationality: Romania

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Nicolae Balan (Romanian pronunciation: [niko'la.e b?'lan]; April 27, 1882 – August 6, 1955) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian cleric, a metropolitan bishop of the Romanian Orthodox Church.
The son of a priest, he graduated from Czernowitz University and taught theology at Sibiu from 1905 to 1920.
That year, he became Metropolis of Transylvania, an office he would hold for the rest of his life.
In the 1930s, he was an open supporter of the Iron Guard.
In 1948, after a communist regime was established, he publicly assisted the new authorities in their effort to disband the Romanian Greek-Catholic Church.