Joseph Schubert (bishop)

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Joseph Schubert (24 June 1890 – 4 April 1969) was a Romanian Catholic cleric and titular bishop. He was born in Bucharest to an ethnic German family. He studied theology in Innsbruck, earned a Doctor of Theology, and was ordained a priest on 15 July 1916. He served as parish priest in Caramurat and, from 1931, at the Bucharest cathedral, and he taught at the seminary in the city.

After the Communist regime arrested Archbishop Anton Durcovici in 1949, Schubert was made Apostolic Administrator of the Archdiocese of Bucharest. He was consecrated a titular bishop of Ceramus on 30 June 1950 by Gerald Patrick O’Hara. He was arrested in February 1951 and sentenced to life of hard labor, held in places including Sighet prison, and released in August 1964.

In 1969 he was allowed to emigrate to Western Europe. He met Pope Paul VI in February 1969 and died in Munich in April 1969. Schubert ordained Alexandru Todea as bishop in 1950. Before leaving Romania, he handed his administrative duties to Iosif Gonciu, who later passed them to Ioan Robu in 1983.