One of the areas that have experienced the changes in Romania since 1989 was education. Experimenting the democratic political regime, dropping birth rates, closing a large number of schools, legislative changes, numerous and often contradictory, taking over without a thorough critical analysis of the models proposed by different individuals or entities in Western Europe are the main reasons that have led to a decline constant quality of education in Romania. One of the few institutions that tried in Alba County to compensate for this decline was the Orthodox Church. This analysis starts from the national and international recognition of the religious and theological education at Alba Iulia, as well as the quality of the two theological schools raised here by the involvement of Archbishop Andrei Andreicut (1990-2011). There are also highlighted the ways in which these educational institutions have become some of excellence. Last but not least, the present paper identifies the models and contexts of selection and training of teachers and students so that these schools become elite.