Monsignor Kovács Gergely was consecrated and installed as the new Roman Catholic Archbishop of Alba Iulia in a ceremony celebrated on Saturday at the St. Michael Cathedral of Alba Iulia, with dozens of ecclesiastical officials – cardinals, bishops, representatives of the other Churches in Transylvania – attending.
Thousands of faithful, mostly from the Harghita and Covasna counties, but also from Hungary, braved the cold to witness the event on the esplanade of the cathedral, the best preserved medieval vestige of Central Europe, the beginnings of which can be traced back before the year 1000.
Kovács Gergely, 52, was born in Targu Secuiesc …read more
Source:: Agerpres
