Ioan Robu

His Excellency Ioan Robu S.T.D.
Archbishop of Bucharest
Appointed	March 14, 1990
Predecessor	Alexandru Theodor Cisar
Successor	incumbent
Other post(s)	Apostolic Administrator of Bucharest (1984–1990) Titular Bishop of Cellae in Proconsulari (1984–1990)
Orders
Ordination	August 15, 1968
Consecration	December 8, 1984 by Agostino Casaroli
Personal details
Born	(1944-11-06) November 6, 1944 Târgu Secuiesc, Romania
Nationality	Romanian
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Residence	Bucharest, Romania
Alma mater	Alphonsian Academy of the Pontifical Lateran University
Motto	Et veritas liberavit vos (English: And the truth will make you free),(John 8:32)
Coat of arms

Ordination history of Ioan Robu
History Priestly ordination Ordained by Petru Pleșca Date August 15, 1968 Episcopal consecration Principal consecrator Agostino Cardinal Casaroli Co-consecrators Luigi Cardinal Pogi, Archbishop Mario Schierano Date December 8, 1984
Episcopal succession Bishops consecrated by Ioan Robu as principal consecrator Cornel Damian December 8, 2003

Ioan Robu (born November 6, 1944) is a Romanian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He is the sixth and current Archbishop of Bucharest.

Robu was born in Târgu Secuiesc, where his father, a native of Traian, Neamț County, had briefly come to work. A graduate of the Roman Catholic Theological Institute of Iași, he was ordained to the priesthood on August 15, 1968. He then served at the Roman Catholic parish in Craiova and at Saint Joseph's Cathedral in Bucharest. Studying in Rome at the Pontifical Lateran University's Alphonsian Academy from 1973 to 1977, he obtained a Doctor of Sacred Theology degree. During the summer of 1977, he was parish priest in Buzău, and from that year until 1983, was director of his alma mater in Iaşi.

He was elected diocesan administrator on December 1, 1983 and apostolic administrator and bishop on October 25, 1984 before being consecrated titular bishop of Cellae in Proconsulari on December 8, 1984 in Rome by Cardinal Secretary of State Agostino Casaroli. He was raised to the rank of archbishop on April 29, 1990, in the presence of Archbishop Angelo Sodano, representative of Pope John Paul II.