
Imre Alfréd Erőss (7 July 1909 – 31 July 1950) was a
Romania
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n cleric and
Roman Catholic
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bishop.
Born into an
ethnic Hungarian family in
Prisian (''Perestyén'') in what is now
Caraş-Severin County, he began his studies at the
Piarist High School in
Timișoara
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. His father objected to his wish of becoming a
Jesuit
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, and so he continued his studies in
Târgu Secuiesc
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History
The town was first mentioned in 1407 as ''Torjawasara'', meaning in Hungarian “Torja Market”. ( Torja ...
. He began his theological education at the
Roman Catholic Theological Institute of Alba Iulia
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before continuing in
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from 1929 to 1937, being ordained a priest there in 1935. He was a hospital chaplain at
Cluj
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in 1937 and supervised seminarians at
Alba Iulia
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from 1938 to 1941 before returning to teach
dogmatics at Cluj until 1944. From then until 1949, he taught
World War II
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refugees at
Zirc
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. In 1949, he was consecrated bishop in
Bucharest
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. He died in a hospital in Cluj and was buried in
Turda
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.
[Erőss]
at the Magyar Katolikus Lexikon site; accessed May 12, 2012
Erőss published a number of theological works.
Notes
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1909 births
1950 deaths
People from Caraș-Severin County
Romanian religious leaders of Hungarian descent
Romanian theologians
Romanian anti-communist clergy
20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Romania
Collegium Germanicum et Hungaricum alumni