Ioan Șișeștean (11 June 1936 – 12 April 2011) was a Romanian prelate of the Greek Catholic Church who was the bishop of the

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from 1994 until his death.

Biography

He was born on 11 June 1936 in Șișești,

Maramureș County Maramureș County () is a county (județ) in Romania, in the Maramureș region. The county seat is Baia Mare. Name In Hungarian language, Hungarian it is known as ''Máramaros megye'', in Ukrainian language, Ukrainian as Мараморо́щ ...

, the eldest son of eight children born into a peasant family. He attended primary school in his home town and the "Gheorghe Şincai" Theoretical High School in Baia Mare. He worked briefly as a substitute teacher and then as a laboratory technician in a factory in Baia Mare. He studied theology clandestinely and was secretly ordained a priest on 13 March 1972 by Bishop Ioan Dragomir. He taught dogmatic theology at the Greek-Catholic Theological Institute in Baia Mare when it reopened. Bishop Lucian Muresan named him Vicar of Maramures early in 1994 and the named to replace Muresan as bishop on 4 July 1994. He received his episcopal consecration on 11 September 1994 from Bishop

Lucian Mureșan Lucian Mureșan (born 23 May 1931) is a Romanian prelate of the Romanian Greek Catholic Church who has been the first Major Archbishop of the Romanian Greek Catholic Major Archeparchy of Făgăraș and Alba Iulia, Greek Catholic Archdiocese of ...

, assisted by Bishops Virgil Bercea and Alexandru Mesian. He died of a heart attack on 12 April 2011 in

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References

1936 births 2011 deaths Romanian Greek-Catholic bishops People from Maramureș County {{RomanianGreekCatholic-bishop-stub