Considerations on Father Justinian Teculescu’s Work as Bishop: The Military Bishop of Alba
Iulia (1923-1924) and Bishop of Cetatea Albă and Ismail (1924-1932)
Our study emphasizes that associations have always studied local and national history since
the Romanians began to affirm themselves in Transylvania as a nation. Their goals were both
social, cultural and economic, as well as cultivating an awareness of Romanian specific in
Transylvania, objectives that the Central Committee of the Association of Sibiu since 1861 and
the Romanian National Party of Austria- Hungary since 1881 have been able to implement in the
conditions of political compromise after 1867. Their efforts later led to the Great Union in
1918, a natural result of the religious, cultural, economic and political work and activity of
the Romanian elites. Ioan Teculescu, dean of Alba Iulia and cultural manager of Astra
Association Partition in Alba Iulia was a part of this colossal effort of cultivating the
national awareness and of asserting their political and national goals in the early twentieth
century. In 1918, I. Teculescu was involved in organizing the Great National Assembly as
president of the RomanianNational Council of Alba Iulia and is one of those who actually signed
the Union documents. In 1923, he was promoted military bishop of the diocesse of Alba Iulia and
two years later he was selected Bishop of Cetatea Albă-Ismail that he shepherded until 1932.
DRAGOŞ LUCIAN CURELEA, DANIELA ŞTEFANIA CURELEA
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