Anton Coșa

The Most Reverend Anton Coşa
Bishop of Chișinău
Church	Roman Catholic Church
Diocese	Chișinău
See	Chișinău
Appointed	27 October 2001
Installed	8 December 2001
Orders
Ordination	25 June 1989 by Ioan Robu
Consecration	6 January 2000 by Pope John Paul II
Personal details
Birth name	Anton Coşa
Born	(1961-11-23) 23 November 1961 (age 59) Faraoani, Bacău, Romania
Previous post(s)	Apostolic Administrator of Moldova (1993-2001) Titular Bishop of Pesto (1999-2001)
Alma mater	Theological Institute of Iași
Motto	Omnia in Christo
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Anton Coşa (born November 23, 1961) is a Romanian cleric, bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Chişinău in Moldova. Born into a peasant family in Valea Mare village, Bacău County, he finished high school in the Hemeiuș Commune.

In 1989, he graduated from the Roman Catholic Theological Institute of Iași, and that June was ordained a priest by Bucharest Archbishop Ioan Robu, for the Iaşi Diocese. From 1989 to 1990, he was the assistant priest at Roman, and from 1990 to 1991 in Chişinău.

In 1991, he became the parish priest, remaining there until he was named Apostolic Administrator for Moldova in 1993. In October 1999, Pope John Paul II named him as the titular bishop of Paestum, later consecrating him at Saint Peter's Basilica the following January. He was named as the inaugural Bishop of Chişinău in 2001.^[1]

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