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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
Makó (, german: Makowa, yi, מאַקאָווע Makowe, ro, Macău or , sk, Makov) is a town in Csongrád County, in southeastern Hungary, from the Romanian border. It lies on the Maros River. Makó is home to 23,272 people and it has an area ...
,
Csanád County
Csanád was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is now part of Hungary, except for a small area which is part of Romania. The capital of the county was Makó.
Geography
Csanád county shared borders wit ...
,
Kingdom of Hungary
The Kingdom of Hungary was a monarchy in Central Europe that existed for nearly a millennium, from the Middle Ages into the 20th century. The Principality of Hungary emerged as a Christian kingdom upon the coronation of the first king Stephen ...
(today in
Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia a ...
), in a family of Romanian shepherds, leave the Budureasa.
His secondary education was in
Timișoara
), City of Roses ( ro, Orașul florilor), City of Parks ( ro, Orașul parcurilor)
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and
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 ...
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
Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-largest city on the Danube river; the city has an estimated population ...
, and, since autumn 1818, and continued his studies, during the third and fourth, in
Vienna
en, Viennese
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, 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 1829, to
Olosig, Oradea, where he was appointed priest. On June 9, 1835, Basil received Ardeleanu Erdeli-canonical function Capitlulul Oradea Cathedral, and then became rector of the Greek Catholic Seminary in Oradea (1836–1848). Further, Basil Erdeli-canonical step up Ardeleanu custodian, as well as the assessor of the plate and
Csongrád
Csongrád ( ro, Ciongrad; tr, Conğrad sr, Чонград, Čongrad, archaically also ''Црноград/Crnograd'') is a town in Csongrád County in southern Hungary.
History
At the time of the Hungarian Conquest (the end of 9th century) the ...
-Csanád judicial districts.
Bishop
On August 2, 1843, Basil was appointed Erdeli-Ardeleanu and then consecrated bishop of Oradea, the
Romanian Church United with Rome
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 ...
by Bishop
Ioan Lemeni
Ioan Lemeni ( hu, Lemény János; 22 April 1780 – 29 March 1861) was an ethnic Romanian prelate in the Kingdom of Hungary, who served as Bishop of Făgăraş and Primate of the Romanian Greek Catholic Church from 1833 to his resignation in 1850 ...
in
Blaj
Blaj (; archaically spelled as ''Blaș''; hu, Balázsfalva; german: Blasendorf; Transylvanian Saxon dialect, Transylvanian Saxon: ''Blußendref'') is a municipiu, city in Alba County, Transylvania, Romania. It has a population of 20,630 inhabita ...
. Even before being ordained a bishop since 1832, until 1848, Basil Erdeli-Ardeleanu made many vizitaţii canonical in Banat and managed to increase the number of parishes from 2–22.
Carei
Carei (; , ; /, yi, , ) is a city in Satu Mare County, northwestern Romania, near the border with Hungary. The city administers one village, Ianculești ( hu, Szentjánosmajor).
History
The first mention of the city under the name of "Karul ...
,
Satu Mare
Satu Mare (; hu, Szatmárnémeti ; german: Sathmar; yi, סאטמאר or ) is a city with a population of 102,400 (2011). It is the capital of Satu Mare County, Romania, as well as the centre of the Satu Mare metropolitan area. It lies in the ...
, set up a curacy. The diocese he ruled, he built fifty churches and repaired.
He recommended the priests and faithful to subscribe to "Gazeta de Transilvania" which appear in
Brașov
Brașov (, , ; german: Kronstadt; hu, Brassó; la, Corona; Transylvanian Saxon: ''Kruhnen'') is a city in Transylvania, Romania and the administrative centre of Brașov County.
According to the latest Romanian census (2011), Brașov has a popu ...
. He introduced Romanian as teaching language, from March 4, 1849, instead of Latin in secondary school for boys in Beius, high school rank of 8 classes. Canon Joseph appointed diocesan inspector Salajan Pop. A normal high school in Oradea and from
Beiuș
Beiuș (; hu, Belényes) is a city in Bihor County, Romania near the Apuseni Mountains. The river Crișul Negru flows through Beiuș, and the city administers a single village, Delani (''Gyalány'').
Between the late 18th and very early 20th c ...
to 4 classes. Basil Erdeli-Ardeleanu as Emanoil Gojdu during revolutions of 1848–1849 in
Transylvania
Transylvania ( ro, Ardeal or ; hu, Erdély; german: Siebenbürgen) is a historical and cultural region in Central Europe, encompassing central Romania. To the east and south its natural border is the Carpathian Mountains, and to the west the Ap ...
and Hungary, the Romanian-Hungarian brotherhood promoted, but soon after the capitulation of
Șiria
Șiria (german: Hellburg; hu, Világos) is a commune in Arad County, Romania. According to the 2002 census it had 8,140 inhabitants.
The commune is situated at from Arad, its administrative territory covers , and it lies in the contact zone o ...
, Arad kossuthişti Hungarian revolutionaries, supported in publicly,
Franz Joseph I
Franz Joseph I or Francis Joseph I (german: Franz Joseph Karl, hu, Ferenc József Károly, 18 August 1830 – 21 November 1916) was Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, and the other states of the Habsburg monarchy from 2 December 1848 until his ...
, Emperor of the
Habsburg Empire
The Habsburg monarchy (german: Habsburgermonarchie, ), also known as the Danubian monarchy (german: Donaumonarchie, ), or Habsburg Empire (german: Habsburgerreich, ), was the collection of empires, kingdoms, duchies, counties and other polities ...
. In the midst of fighting between troops of the Tsarist intervention Hungarian revolutionaries led by
Lajos Kossuth
Lajos Kossuth de Udvard et Kossuthfalva (, hu, udvardi és kossuthfalvi Kossuth Lajos, sk, Ľudovít Košút, anglicised as Louis Kossuth; 19 September 1802 – 20 March 1894) was a Hungarian nobleman, lawyer, journalist, poli ...
, the host, the warm, the Tsarist General Paskievici Erivan, the Beiuș. In 1849 he was presented the king, who decorated it and made baron, as
Andrei Şaguna
Andrei, Andrey or Andrej (in Cyrillic script: Андрэй , Андрей or Андреј) is a form of Andreas/Ἀνδρέας in Slavic languages and Romanian. People with the name include:
*Andrei of Polotsk (–1399), Lithuanian nobleman
*And ...
, in fact, for the same reasons. In January 1850, a petition to the king, asked him to turn the Principality of Transylvania in "Romanian Land" and Emperor to receive the title of "Great in the novel".
Vasile Ardeleanu Erdeli-managed, with the support of Governor of Hungary, Archduke Albrecht, the establishment of a Chair of Romanian Language and Literature at the University of Budapest, academic year 1862 to 1863. This chair was named Professor Alexander Roman (1826–1897), founding member of the Romanian Academy in Bucharest and publicist, who had taught the Romanian language since 1850, the School Premonstrantes of Oradea.
During his pastoral, the
Greek-Catholic Diocese of Oradea passed from the jurisdiction of
Archdiocese of Esztergom
In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop.
History
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associat ...
into the jurisdiction of the
Archdiocese of Făgăraş and Alba Iulia.
Death
Bishop Basil Erdeli-Ardeleanu died at the age of 68, in Oradea, on March 17, 1862. He was buried in St. Nicholas in Oradea.
Bibliographic sources
John M. Bota, ''Universal Church History of the Romanian Church from its origins until today'', publisher Christian Life, Cluj-Napoca, 1994 (pp. 216, 287).
External links
* http://www.egco.ro/index_ro.php
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1794 births
1862 deaths
Romanian Greek-Catholic bishops