Vasile Louis Puscas ( ro, Puşcaş; September 13, 1915 – October 3, 2009) was an American

prelate A prelate () is a high-ranking member of the Christian clergy who is an ordinary or who ranks in precedence with ordinaries. The word derives from the Latin , the past participle of , which means 'carry before', 'be set above or over' or 'pref ...

of the

Romanian Catholic Church Romanian Catholic Church may refer to: * Catholic Church in Romania, including both Latin and Eastern Catholics * Romanian Church United with Rome, Greek-Catholic (an Eastern Catholic church of the Byzantine Rite, in full communion with the Churc ...

. Puscas was born in

Aurora, Illinois Aurora is a city in the Chicago metropolitan area located partially in DuPage County, Illinois, DuPage, Kane County, Illinois, Kane, Kendall County, Illinois, Kendall, and Will County, Illinois, Will counties in the U.S. state of Illinois. Locat ...

and was

ordained Ordination is the process by which individuals are consecrated, that is, set apart and elevated from the laity class to the clergy, who are thus then authorized (usually by the denominational hierarchy composed of other clergy) to perform va ...

to the priesthood on May 14, 1942. He was appointed

apostolic exarch An exarch (; from Ancient Greek ἔξαρχος ''exarchos'', meaning “leader”) was the holder of any of various historical offices, some of them being political or military and others being ecclesiastical. In the late Roman Empire and ea ...

for the Romanian faithful of the Byzantine rite residing in the United States and was consecrated titular Bishop of Leuce on June 26, 1983. On March 26, 1987, Puscas was appointed bishop of the newly established

Romanian Catholic Eparchy of St George's in Canton The Romanian Greek Catholic Eparchy of St. George is a Romanian Greek Catholic Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or eparchy of the Catholic Church in the United States and Canada. The incumbent eparch is John Michael Botean. The cathedral church ...

. Puscas retired from the pastoral governance of the eparchy on July 2, 1993, aged 77. On September 1, 1993, he left Canton for his hometown Aurora in Illinois, where he died on October 3, 2009.

References

"Saint George's in Canton dei Romeni." ''Annuario Pontificio 2006'', Città del Vaticano: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2006, p. 630.

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Catholic-HierarchyDiocese Site
* 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in the United States American Eastern Catholic bishops Romanian Greek-Catholic bishops American people of Romanian descent 1915 births 2009 deaths People from Aurora, Illinois People from Canton, Ohio {{US-EC-bishop-stub

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