Vasile Bizău

The Right Reverend Vasile Bizău
Bishop of Maramureș
Church	Romanian Greek Catholic Church
Diocese	Greek Catholic Diocese of Maramureș
Appointed	11 June 2011
Installed	23 July 2011
Predecessor	Ioan Șișeștean
Other post(s)	Curial Bishop of Făgăraș and Alba Iulia
Orders
Ordination	31 August 1997
Consecration	16 December 2007 by Lucian Mureșan
Personal details
Born	(1969-10-14) October 14, 1969 Dragomirești, Maramureș County, Romania
Nationality	Romanian

Vasile Bizău (born October 14, 1969) is a Romanian bishop of the Greek-Catholic Church.

Biography

He was born in Dragomirești, Maramureș County into a Greek-Catholic family that continued in the faith while the church was banned under the communist regime.

He graduated from high school in Baia Mare in 1988 and studied theology there from 1990 to 1993. From 1993 to 2000 he studied at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome through the master's degree level, pursuing doctoral studies in the same city from 2001 to 2002.

Ordained deacon in Giulești 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 titular bishop of Appiaria by Pope Benedict XVI and consecrated at the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Blaj.

In 2011, Archbishop Lucian Mureșan transferred Bizău to Baia Mare, where he became Bishop of Maramureș.