Vasile Hossu (30 January 1866 – 13 January 1916) was a Romanian Greek Catholic hierarch. He was bishop of the Romanian Catholic Eparchy of Lugoj from 1903 to 1911 and the Romanian Catholic Eparchy of Gherla, Armenopoli, Szamos-Ujvár from 1911 to 1916. Born in Neumarkt am Mieresch,

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(present-day

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) in 1866, he was

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on 27 August 1888. He was appointed the Bishop by the

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on 25 June 1903. He was

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to the

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on 21 September 1903. The principal

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was Archbishop

Victor Mihaly de Apșa Victor Mihaly de Apşa, commonly Victor Mihali (May 19, 1841—January 21, 1918), was an ethnic Romanian Austro-Hungarian bishop of the Greek-Catholic Church. Born to an old noble family in Ieud, Maramureș County,Ioan Sabo Ioan Sabo (16 August 1836 – 2 May 1911) was a Romanian Greek Catholic hierarch. He was bishop of the Romanian Catholic Eparchy of Gherla, Armenopoli, Szamos-Ujvár from 1879 to 1911. Born in Istrău, today in Romania (then Esztró, Kingdom o ...

and Bishop

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 ...

. He died in

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on 13 January 1916.

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