Alexandru Mesian

Alexandru Mesian (22 January 1937 – 11 March 2023) was a Romanian Greek-Catholic hierarch.

The Right Reverend

Alexandru Mesian
Romanian Catholic Bishop of Lugoj
ChurchRomanian Greek Catholic Church
DioceseRomanian Catholic Eparchy of Lugoj
Installed20 November 1995
Term ended11 March 2023
PredecessorIoan Ploscaru
SuccessorVacant
Other post(s)Coadjutor Bishop of Lugoj (1994-1995)
Orders
Ordination8 May 1965
Consecration8 September 1994
by Lucian Mureșan
Personal details
Born(1937-01-22)22 January 1937
Ferneziu, Romania
Died11 March 2023(2023-03-11) (aged 86)
Lugoj, Romania
NationalityRomanian

Life

Born in Ferneziu, now part of Baia Mare city, he graduated from Gheorghe Şincai High School. Admitted to the Roman Catholic Theological Institute of Iași in 1957, Mesian was expelled on the orders of the communist authorities the same year, as he was from a family that belonged to the banned Greek-Catholic Church. He performed his military service from 1957 to 1960, working as a technician in Baia Mare from 1950 to 1990. Mesian studied theology and was ordained a priest in secret in 1965, emerging into the open in 1990, after the fall of the regime. In 1994, he was consecrated auxiliary bishop for the Lugoj Eparchy, advancing to bishop in 1996 with the retirement of Ioan Ploscaru.[1]

Mesian died in Lugoj on 11 March 2023, at the age of 86.[2]

References
  1. (in Romanian) PS Alexandru Mesian at the Romanian Church United with Rome, Greek-Catholic site; accessed 28 May 2012
  2. A trecut la cele veșnice Preasfinția Sa Alexandru MESIAN, Episcopul Eparhiei Greco-Catolice de Lugoj
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