Ioan Șișeștean
Ioan Șișeștean (11 June 1936 – 12 April 2011) was a Romanian prelate of the Greek Catholic Church who was the bishop of the Greek Catholic Diocese of Maramureș in Romania from 1994 until his death.
Biography
[edit]He was born on 11 June 1936 in Șișești, Maramureș County, 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.[1]
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.[1]
He received his episcopal consecration on 11 September 1994 from Bishop Lucian Mureșan, assisted by Bishops Virgil Bercea and Alexandru Mesian.[1][2]
He died of a heart attack on 12 April 2011 in Baia Sprie.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "PS Ioan a trecut la Domnul". BRU.ro (in Romanian). 12 April 2011. Retrieved 8 September 2023 – via Greco Catholic Church.
- ^ "Bishop Ioan Șișeștean". Catholic Hierarchy. Retrieved 8 September 2023.[self-published source]
- ^ "Episcopul Ioan Şişeştean de Maramureş comemorat la biserica Sfânta Maria din Baia Mare". The Romanian Church United with Rome, Greek-Catholic (in Romanian). 2 May 2011. Retrieved 8 September 2023.
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