Miron Romanul

From 1869 to 1870, he was school inspector for Krassó-Szörény County, from 1870 to 1873 he was vice president of the Orthodox consistory in Oradea, and in 1871 he attained the rank of archimandrite.

Elected Archbishop of Sibiu and Metropolitan of Transylvania that November, he was enthroned the following month and remained in office until his death.

Active within Asociația națională arădeană pentru cultura poporului român, he was at the forefront of the Arad Romanian National Party organization and was elected to the Diet of Hungary's House of Representatives in 1869.

As metropolitan, he sat in the House of Magnates, where he defended Romanians' rights on a number of occasions, in particular intervening on behalf of their confessional schools in 1879 and 1883.

He guided the activity of the theological-pedagogical institute and helped finance the education of numerous students, offering them scholarships from the metropolis' funds or from endowments it managed (such as that left by Emanoil Gojdu).