Alexandru Todea

{{short description|Romanian Greek-Catholic bishop}}

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| honorific-prefix = His Eminence

| name = Alexandru Todea

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| title = Cardinal, Archbishop of Făgăraș and Alba Iulia

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| church = Romanian Greek Catholic Church

| archdiocese = Făgăraș and Alba Iulia

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| term_start = 1990

| term_end = 20 July 1993

| predecessor = Alexandru Nicolescu

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| successor = Lucian Mureșan

| other_post = Cardinal-Priest of Sant'Atanasio a Via Tiburtina

| ordination = 25 March 1939

| consecration = 19 November 1950

| cardinal = 28 June 1991

| created_cardinal_by = John Paul II

| rank = Cardinal-Priest

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| birth_place = Marostelek, Austria-Hungary

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2002|5|22|1912|6|5}}

| death_place = Târgu Mureș, Romania

| buried = Cathedral of Blaj

| nationality = Romanian

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| alma_mater = Pontificio Collegio Urbano de Propaganda Fide

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Alexandru Todea (5 June 1912, Teleac, Mureș County–22 May 2002, Târgu Mureș) was a Romanian Greek-Catholic bishop of the Alba Iulia Diocese and later cardinal. He was also a victim of the communist regime, suffering at Jilava, Sighet, and Pitești prisons.

Born into a peasant family, Todea was the 13th of 16 children. After attending primary school in his native village, and high school in Reghin and Blaj, Metropolitan bishop Vasile Suciu send him to pursue his theological studies in Rome. He received his doctorate from the Pontificio Collegio Urbano de Propaganda Fide and returned to Romania in 1940.{{cite web| url=http://www.bru.ro/blaj/todea_co.asp|title=Biography|website=www.bru.ro|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070701175028/http://www.bru.ro/blaj/todea_co.asp|archive-date=2007-07-01|language=ro}} He was created cardinal on 28 June 1991 and given the titular church of Sant'Atanasio a Via Tiburtina.{{cite web|url=http://www.gcatholic.org/churches/cardinal/120.htm|title= Cardinal Title S. Athanasii ad viam Tiburtinam|website=GCatholic.org}}

Todea is buried at the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Blaj.