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Vasile Suciu (13 January 1873,
Kopacsel,
Fogaras County
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Fogaras county shared borders ...
– 25 January 1935,
Blaj
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) was a
Romania
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of the
Archdiocese of Făgăraș and Alba Iulia
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History
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, considered to be the most important
theologian
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of the Greek-Catholic Church in
Transylvania
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.
After completing high school in
Blaj
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, he pursued his theological studies in
Rome
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at the ''
Propaganda Fide
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'', obtaining
Ph.D.
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s in Philosophy (1894) and Theology (1898).
In 1919, he was elected honorary
member of the Romanian Academy.
On 1 January 1920, Vasile Suciu was appointed Metropolitan, with approval from the
Vatican
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, and with consent from
King
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Ferdinand I of Romania
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. During his tenure, a
Concordat
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between the
Holy See
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and the
Kingdom of Romania
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was signed on 10 May 1927, and ratified on 7 July 1929 by the
Iuliu Maniu
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government.
Works
* "Hipnotism și spiritism", Studiu critici-teologic, Blaj, 1906, 198 p.
* "Teologia Dogmatică fundamentală", 2 vol., Blaj, 1907 (vol.I. "Apologetica creștină", VI + 387 p.; vol. II. "Tradițiunea și Biserica", 402 p.; ed. a II-a, Blaj, 1927, 516 + 522 p.)
* "Teologia Dogmatică specială", 2 vol., Blaj, 1908 (vol.I, "Dumnezeu unul. Sfânta Treime. Dumnezeu Creatorul. Întruparea Domnului. Grația", 606 p., vol. II. "Sacramentele în general. Sacramentele în special. Eshatologia", 604 p., ed. a II-a, Blaj, 1927, 631 + 700 p.)
External links
*
''Archbishop Vasile (Basile) Suciu'' at Catholic-hierarchy.org*
at CrestinOrtodox.ro
*
"Biserica Română Unită între cele două războaie mondiale", at BRU.ro
*
"Comemorarea Mitropolitului Vasile Suciu" ''Catholica'', Blaj, January 26, 2005
1873 births
1935 deaths
People from Brașov County
Honorary members of the Romanian Academy
Romanian Austro-Hungarians
Primates of the Romanian Greek Catholic Church
19th-century Eastern Catholic bishops
19th-century Romanian people
20th-century Eastern Catholic archbishops
20th-century Romanian people
Delegates of the Great National Assembly of Alba Iulia
Eastern Catholic bishops in Romania
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