Nicolae Colan

Nicolae Colan
Church	Romanian Orthodox Church
Archdiocese	Sibiu
Metropolis	Transylvania
Installed	26 May 1957
Term ended	15 April 1967
Predecessor	Iustin Moisescu
Successor	Nicolae Mladin
Other post(s)	Bishop of Vad, Feleac and Cluj (1936–1957)
Orders
Ordination	1934
Consecration	31 May 1936
Personal details
Born	(1893-11-28)November 28, 1893 Árapatak, Háromszék County, Austria-Hungary (now Araci, Covasna County, Romania)
Died	April 15, 1967(1967-04-15) (aged 73) Sibiu, Socialist Republic of Romania
Buried	Sâmbăta de Sus Monastery
Denomination	Eastern Orthodox Church
Profession	Theologian
Alma mater	University of Bucharest

Nicolae Colan (Romanian pronunciation: [nikoˈla.e koˈlan]; November 28, 1893 – April 15, 1967) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian cleric, a metropolitan bishop of the Romanian Orthodox Church. From a peasant background, Colan completed high school in Brașov, followed by a period of wandering during World War I that saw him in Sibiu, Bucharest, Moldavia, Ukraine and ultimately Bessarabia, where he advocated union with Romania. After the war, he completed university and taught New Testament theology at Sibiu from 1924 to 1936. Entering the clergy in 1934, he soon became bishop at Cluj, remaining there when Northern Transylvania temporarily became Hungarian territory during World War II. In 1957, he advanced to Metropolitan of Transylvania, an office he held for the final decade of his life.