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Greek Catholic Diocese Of Oradea Mare
The Greek Catholic diocese of Oradea Mare is the Eparchy of the Romanian Greek Catholic Church for the area of Oradea. It was founded in 1777, followers of the Greek Rite having been up to that time under the jurisdiction of the Latin bishop. Originally the see was a suffragan of Esztergom (Gran); when, however, in 1853 the Greek Catholic ''Diocese of Făgăraș and Alba Iulia'' became the Archdiocese of Făgăraș and Alba Iulia, the diocese of Oradea Mare was transferred to its jurisdiction. The see is divided into six archidiaconates and 19 vice-archidiaconates. Bishops The list of the eparch (bishops) of the Greek Catholic Diocese of Oradea Mare is: * Meletie Covaci (born 1707, converted to the Greek Catholic Church in 1736, reigned 1748–1775 as auxiliary bishop of the Latin bishop of Oradea) * Moise Dragoș (born 1725, reigned 1775–1787, under his reign in 1777 the diocese became independent from the Latin bishop] * Ignațiu Darabant (born 1730, reigned 1788 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oradea
Oradea (, , ; german: Großwardein ; hu, Nagyvárad ) is a city in Romania, located in Crișana, a sub-region of Transylvania. The county seat, seat of Bihor County, Oradea is one of the most important economic, social and cultural centers in the western part of Romania. The city is located in the north-west of the country, nestled between hills on the Crișana plain, on the banks of the river Crișul Repede, that divides the city into almost equal halves. Located about from Borș, Bihor, Borș, one of the most important crossing points on Romania's border with Hungary, Oradea ranks List of cities and towns in Romania, tenth in size among Romanian cities. It covers an area of , in an area of contact between the extensions of the Apuseni Mountains and the Crișana-Banat extended plain. Oradea enjoys a high standard of living and ranks among the most livable cities in the country. The city is also a strong industrial center in the region, hosting some of Romania's largest companies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vasile Erdeli
Vasile Erdeli (August 1, 1794 – March 17, 1862), also known as the Vasile Erdeli-Ardeleanu, was a Romanian bishop of the Diocese of Oradea Mare, between 1843 and 1862. Origins and education Vasile Erdeli was born in Makó, Csanád County, Kingdom of Hungary (today in Hungary), in a family of Romanian shepherds, leave the Budureasa. His secondary education was in Timișoara and Oradea then, as a student of United Romanian Youth Seminar, which ended in 1815. During 1815–1816, he studied a year at the Academy of Rights in Oradea, then, between 1816–1817, the first year of theology, all the Latin Seminary in Oradea. Second year of theology made in Budapest, and, since autumn 1818, and continued his studies, during the third and fourth, in Vienna, which ended in 1820. From Vienna he returned home. Priest On November 20, 1820, Basil Erdeli-Ardeleanu was ordained celibate priest and, from 1821 to 1829, he served as parish administrator, and then the priest Beius. He moved, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romanian Greek Catholic Church Dioceses
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Roman Catholic Dioceses In Romania
Unlike most European countries, the Catholic Church in Romania comprises in a single national episcopal conference both Latin and two Eastern Catholic churches (one of which being nation-specific): * A Latin hierarchy ** one ecclesiastical province with four suffragan sees ** an exempt non-metropolitan archdiocese * Two Eastern Catholic rite-specific particular churches ''sui iuris'': ** The Romanian Greek Catholic Church (Byzantine Rite (Greek Catholic) in Rumanian language, comprising the Ecclesiastical province of Făgăraş and Alba Iulia, whose Metropolitan Archbishop is the Major Archbishop (almost Patriarch) of the whole rite-specific particular church ''sui iuris'', and all its four Romanian Suffragan Eparchies (dioceses). ** An Armenian Catholic Ordinariate for Eastern Catholic faithful. There is also an Apostolic nunciature as papal diplomatic representation (embassy-level) in the national capital Bucharest, into which is also vested the Apostolic nunciature to neighbo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Ratiu
Father Alexander Ratiu ( ro, Rațiu; 4 May 1916 – 25 July 2002) was a Romanian-American priest of the Romanian Greek-Catholic Church. While serving in his family's country of origin, he became a political prisoner, and later, after his release, an author. Ratiu served as a pastor in both Giurtelecu Șimleului, Romania, and in Plainfield, Illinois, in the United States. Early life Ratiu was born on 4 May 1916, in Scalp Level, Pennsylvania, in the United States, one of the four sons of Elisabeta Chindriș and Grigore Rațiu, immigrants from Romania. His brothers were named Grigore, Ioan and Emilian. In 1921, his family moved back to Romania where he was raised in Moftinu Mic, Sălaj County (now Satu Mare County). In Carei, Ratiu attended "Vasile Lucaciu" State High School. Then he studied philosophy at Oradea, where he was a schoolmate with Coriolan Tămâian, who later became a noted prelate of the diocese. Following his university studies, in preparation for the priesthood, h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vasile Hossu (bishop Of Oradea)
Vasile Hossu (17 May 1919 – 18 June 1997) was a Romanian Greek Catholic hierarch. He was bishop of the Romanian Catholic Eparchy of Oradea Mare from 1990 to 1997. Biography Born in Nagykároly, Hungary (today Carei, Romania) in 1919, he was ordained a priest on 4 February 1945 by Bishop Ioan Suciu. He was arrested and detained several times by the Communist regime in Romania during the persecution and abolition of the Greek-Catholics. He was appointed the Bishop by the Holy See on 14 March 1990. He was consecrated to the Episcopate on 27 May 1990. The principal consecrator was Archbishop Alexandru Todea and co-consecrators were Archbishop Guido Del Mestri and Bishop Ioan Ploscaru. He died in Oradea on 18 June 1997. See also *Catholic Church in Romania The Roman Catholic Church in Romania ( ro, Biserica Romano-Catolică din România, hu, Romániai Római Katolikus Egyház, german: Römisch-katholische Kirche in Rumänien) is a Latin Rite Christian church, part of the wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romanian Revolution Of 1989
The Romanian Revolution ( ro, Revoluția Română), also known as the Christmas Revolution ( ro, Revoluția de Crăciun), was a period of violent civil unrest in Romania during December 1989 as a part of the Revolutions of 1989 that occurred in several countries around the world. The Romanian Revolution started in the city of Timișoara and soon spread throughout the country, ultimately culminating in the drumhead trial and execution of longtime Romanian Communist Party (PCR) General Secretary Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife Elena, and the end of 42 years of Communist rule in Romania. It was also the last removal of a Marxist–Leninist government in a Warsaw Pact country during the events of 1989, and the only one that violently overthrew a country's leadership and executed its leader; according to estimates, over one thousand people died and thousands more were injured. Following World War II, Romania was placed under the Soviet sphere of influence in 1947 with Communist rul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iuliu Hirțea
Iuliu Hirțea (13 April 1914—28 June 1978) was a Romanian bishop of the Greek-Catholic Church. Born in Vintere village, Bihor County, he attended high school in Beiuș, entering the seminary in Oradea upon graduation in 1931. A year later, he went to the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples in Rome, receiving a doctorate in theology. He was ordained a priest in Rome in 1937, by Bishop Valeriu Traian Frențiu. His return to Romania was marked by the handover to Hungary of Northern Transylvania in 1940. From that year until 1945, he was secretary to Frențiu at his headquarters in Beiuș. He then started teaching at the Oradea seminary, following the area's reincorporation into Romania at the end of World War II. In late 1948, the new communist regime outlawed the Greek-Catholic Church; Hirțea had been arrested in the spring of that year. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communist Romania
The Socialist Republic of Romania ( ro, Republica Socialistă România, RSR) was a Marxism–Leninism, Marxist–Leninist One-party state, one-party socialist state that existed officially in Romania from 1947 to 1989. From 1947 to 1965, the state was known as the Romanian People's Republic (, RPR). The country was an Eastern Bloc state and a member of the Warsaw Pact with a dominant role for the Romanian Communist Party enshrined in :Template:RomanianConstitutions, its constitutions. Geographically, RSR was bordered by the Black Sea to the east, the Soviet Union (via the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Ukrainian and Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic, Moldavian SSRs) to the north and east, Hungarian People's Republic, Hungary and Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia (via Socialist Republic of Serbia, SR Serbia) to the west, and People's Republic of Bulgaria, Bulgaria to the south. As World War II ended, Kingdom of Romania, Romania, a former Axis powers, A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valeriu Traian Frențiu
Valeriu Traian Frențiu (25 April 1875 – 11 July 1952) was the Bishop of the Eparchy of Oradea Mare of the Romanian Greek Catholic Church from 1922 to his death in 1952. His beatification occurred on 2 June 2019."A joyous celebration in Romania as Pope Francis beatifies seven bishop-martyrs" ''America Magazine''. 2 June 2019."Pope to beatify martyrs, visit Marian shrine on trip to Romania" ''National Catholic Reporter''. 25 M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Demetriu Radu
Demetriu Radu (26 October 1861 – 8 December 1920) was between 1897 and 1903 the Greek Catholic Bishop of Lugoj, and from 1903 to 1920 the Greek Catholic Bishop of Oradea Mare. Origins and studies Demetriu Radu was born of peasant parents in Tâmpăhaza (present-day Rădești, Alba County, then in Alsó-Fehér County), south of Aiud. He was educated by Franciscans in Aiud and in high school in Blaj. In 1879 Radu was sent to Rome to study at St. Athanasius Institute and the College of Propaganda Fide. In Rome he studied for six years, at the end of which he obtained his Ph.D. in theology. The Greek Catholic clergy In 1885 Radu was ordained priest in Rome. After ordination, Radu went to Bucharest as a parish priest of the Romanian Church United with Rome, Greek Catholic. In Bucharest he was appointed by the Archbishop Paul Joseph Palma professor of the Theological Seminary, then director of the Archdiocesan Seminary in Bucharest, which had been recently created, and gene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mihail Pavel
Mihail Pavel (6 September 1827 – 1 June 1902) was a Romanian Greek Catholic hierarch. He was bishop of the Romanian Catholic Eparchy of Gherla, Armenopoli, Szamos-Ujvár from 1872 to 1879 and the Romanian Catholic Eparchy of Oradea Mare from 1879 to 1902. Born in Recea, Maramureș, Austrian Empire (present day – Romania) in 1827, he was ordained a priest on 21 March 1852. He was confirmed the Bishop by the Holy See on 23 December 1872. He was consecrated to the Episcopate on 26 January 1873. The principal consecrator was Archbishop Ioan Vancea. He died in Solotvyno (present day – Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...) on 1 June 1902. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Pavel, Mihail 1827 births 1902 deaths 19th-century Eastern Catholic bishop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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