Alexandru Mesian (22 January 1937 – 11 March 2023) was a

Romanian Greek-Catholic The Romanian Greek Catholic Church or Romanian Church United with Rome, Greek-Catholic ( la, Ecclesia Graeco-Catholica Romaniae; ro, Biserica Română Unită cu Roma, Greco-Catolică), sometimes called, in reference to its Byzantine Rite, the ...

hierarch.

Life

Born in Ferneziu, now part of

Baia Mare Baia Mare ( , ; hu, Nagybánya; german: Frauenbach or Groß-Neustadt; la, Rivulus Dominarum) is a municipality along the Săsar River, in northwestern Romania; it is the capital of Maramureș County. The city lies in the region of Maramure� ...

city, he graduated from Gheorghe Şincai High School. Admitted to the

Roman Catholic Theological Institute of Iași The Sf. Iosif Roman Catholic Theological Institute is a private university, with a Roman Catholic character and liturgical tradition, in Iaşi, Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central, East ...

in 1957, Mesian was expelled on the orders of the communist authorities the same year, as he was from a family that belonged to the banned Greek-Catholic Church. He performed his military service from 1957 to 1960, working as a technician in Baia Mare from 1950 to 1990. Mesian studied theology and was ordained a priest in secret in 1965, emerging into the open in 1990, after the fall of the regime. In 1994, he was consecrated auxiliary bishop for the Lugoj Eparchy, advancing to bishop in 1996 with the retirement of

Ioan Ploscaru Ioan Ploscaru (19 November 1911 – 31 July 1998) was a Romanian bishop of the Greek-Catholic Church. Born into a peasant family in Frata commune, Cluj County, he studied in Blaj. He was ordained a priest in 1933 and a bishop in November 1948 ...

.PS Alexandru Mesian
at the Romanian Church United with Rome, Greek-Catholic site; accessed 28 May 2012 Mesian died in

Lugoj Lugoj (; hu, Lugos; german: Lugosch; sr, Лугош, Lugoš; bg, Лугож; tr, Logoş) is a city in Timiș County, Romania. The Timiș River divides the city into two halves, the so-called "Romanian Lugoj" that spreads on the right bank and t ...

on 11 March 2023, at the age of 86.A trecut la cele veșnice Preasfinția Sa Alexandru MESIAN, Episcopul Eparhiei Greco-Catolice de Lugoj
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References

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