Coriolan Suciu

Born in Ciugudu de Jos, Alba County, in the Transylvania region, he attended gymnasium from 1906 to 1914 and studied theology from 1914 to 1917 in nearby Blaj.

He then studied history and Latin at Budapest and Cluj from 1917 to 1919, attended specialty courses in Paris from 1921 to 1922 and, following the union of Transylvania with Romania and the creation of Superior Dacia University, obtained a doctorate there in 1922.

[1] Between 1945 and 1956, he worked as a professor at Inocențiu Micu Klein High School in Cluj, where for a time he served as director.

This period saw the onset of a communist regime and the outlawing of his church.

Ordained a priest in 1926, he was made honorary archpriest in 1938.