Antonie Plămădeală

{{onesource|date=November 2018}}Antonie Plămădeală ({{IPA|ro|anˈtoni.e pləməˈde̯alə}}; 17 November 1926 in Stolniceni, Lăpușna County, Bessarabia, Kingdom of Romania – 29 August 2005 in Sibiu) was a high-level hierarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, the Orthodox Metropolitan of Transylvania (1982–2005).

Born Leonida Plămădeală, he received the name of Antonie when he was tonsured a monk in 1948.

He was friends with the Romanian philosopher Constantin Noica, and spoke at his funeral.{{cite book|last1=Verdery|first1=Katherine|title=National Ideology Under Socialism: Identity and Cultural Politics in Ceauşescu's Romania|date=1991|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=9780520072169|page=260|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yv_MuLNSToUC&dq=Antonie+Plamadeala&pg=PA260|accessdate=14 December 2017|language=en}}

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