Traian Crişan was a Romania

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n prelate

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 of the Roman Catholic Church

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 and served as Secretary Emeritus of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints

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 as well being the Titular Bishop of Drivastum.

Born in Iara, Austria-Hungary (present-day Romania), Crişan was ordained as a Greek Catholic

Romanian Church United with Rome, Greek-Catholic

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 priest on 25 March 1945. On 7 December 1981 he was appointed to the Holy See

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 as the Secretary of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints

Congregation for the Causes of Saints

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 and given the title Titular Bishop of Drivastum, going on to being ordained bishop on 6 January 1982.

Bishop Crişan died on 6 November 1990.