Márton Áron miért Kolozsváron szenteltette magát püspökké?

Áron Márton was ordained bishop of Alba Iulia on 12 February 1939 in St. Michael’s Church in Cluj-Napoca, where he had been introduced as the new parish priest only three months earlier. Even today, the question of why his episcopal ordination took place in Cluj-Napoca and not in Alba Iulia remains unanswered. In the foreword of “Imacsokrok Márton Áron püspöknek a Gyulafehérvári Főegyházmegyei Levéltár gyűjteményében” (“Spiritual Bouquets to bishop Áron Márton in the Archdiocesan Archives of Alba Iulia”), published at the end of 2020, bishop emeritus Msgr. Dr. György Jakubinyi answered this question in one sentence: “The most probable reason for the episcopal ordination in Cluj-Napoca appears to be the attachment of the new bishop to the place of his previous pastoral activity,” that is, to Cluj- Napoca. In this study, I try to give a more detailed answer to the question of the place of Áron Márton’s consecration.