sentences:  On 15 March 1936 he was made the brief administrator of Saint Michael's parish in Cluj before being made its actual pastor on 14 August 1938.On 24 December 1938 he was appointed as the Bishop of Alba Iulia in a decree that Pope Pius XI signed.He received his episcopal consecration in 1939 just after that pope's death from Andrea Cassulo before he was enthroned in his new episcopal see.