Type: | Bishop |
Mihai Frățilă | |
Bishop of Bucharest | |
Church: | Romanian Greek Catholic Church |
Diocese: | Bucharest |
See: | Bucharest |
Appointed: | 29 May 2014 |
Term End: | Incumbent |
Ordination: | 11 August 1996 |
Ordained By: | Lucian Mureşan |
Consecration: | 16 December 2007 |
Consecrated By: | Lucian Mureşan |
Birth Name: | Mihai Cătălin Frățilă |
Birth Date: | 10 December 1970 |
Birth Place: | Alba Iulia, Romania |
Mihai Cătălin Frățilă (born 10 December 1970) is a Bishop of the Romanian Church United with Rome, Greek-Catholic. Born in Alba Iulia, he studied at the Pontifical Gregorian and Urbaniana universities between 1991 and 1996, when he was ordained a priest. In 2007, he was selected as auxiliary bishop of the Făgăraş and Alba Iulia Archdiocese and titular bishop of Novae, and the following year he was installed in his headquarters in Bucharest.[1] In May 2014 Pope Francis erected the Eparchy of Saint Basil the Great of Bucharest with Mihai Frățilă as its first bishop.