Vasile Bizău (born October 14, 1969) is a

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n bishop of the Greek-Catholic Church.

Biography

He was born in Dragomirești,

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 ...

into a Greek-Catholic family that continued in the faith while the church was banned under the

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. He graduated from high school in

Baia Mare Baia Mare ( , ; ; ; ) is a Municipiu, city along the Săsar, Săsar River, in northwestern Romania; it is the capital of Maramureș County. The city lies in the region of Maramureș, a subregion of Transylvania. It is situated about from Buchare ...

in 1988 and studied theology there from 1990 to 1993. From 1993 to 2000 he studied at the

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through the master's degree level, pursuing doctoral studies in the same city from 2001 to 2002. Ordained deacon in

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Commune in 1996, he became a priest the following year in Baia Mare. With his return to Romania in 2000, he became parish priest at two churches in Baia Mare, and started teaching at the Northern University. Elected bishop in 2007, he was proclaimed

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of Appiaria by

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and consecrated at the

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. In 2011, Archbishop

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transferred Bizău to Baia Mare, where he became Bishop of Maramureș.PS Vasile Bizău
at the Romanian Church United with Rome, Greek-Catholic site; accessed May 30, 2012

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bizau, Vasile 1969 births Living people People from Dragomirești, Maramureș Romanian Greek-Catholic bishops Pontifical Gregorian University alumni