Martin Roos
Martin Roos (born October 17, 1942) is a
Romanian cleric, bishop of the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Timișoara. Born into a
Banat Swabian family in
Satchinez (''Knees''),
Timiș County, he attended the cantors' school in
Alba Iulia from 1957 to 1961. He began studying theology at the
Roman Catholic Theological Institute of Alba Iulia in 1961, continuing from 1962 to 1969 at
Königstein im Taunus in
West Germany. In 1971,
Carl Joseph Leiprecht ordained him a priest of the
Rottenburg Diocese. From that year until 1973, he was assistant priest in
Stuttgart. From 1973 to 1974 he was parish administrator in
Stimpfach, becoming parish priest in 1974. Following the
Romanian Revolution of 1989, his bishop,
Walter Kasper, allowed him to return to his native country. In 1990, Timișoara Bishop
Sebastian Kräuter named him director of the
diocesan chancery. He became a
Monsignor in 1991 and in 1999, following Kräuter's retirement, he was named bishop by
Pope John Paul II. In May 2018,
Pope Francis accepted his resignation, and appointed
József-Csaba Pál as his successor.
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