Cornel Damian, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Cornel Damian

Roman Catholic bishop

Date of Birth: 08-May-1960

Place of Birth: Jibou, Sălaj County, Romania

Profession: Catholic priest, theologian, university teacher

Nationality: Romania

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

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 Ia?i 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.