Alexandru Mesian Explained

Type:Bishop
Honorific-Prefix:The Right Reverend
Alexandru Mesian
Romanian Catholic Bishop of Lugoj
Church:Romanian Greek Catholic Church
Diocese:Romanian Catholic Eparchy of Lugoj
Term Start:20 November 1995
Term End:11 March 2023
Predecessor:Ioan Ploscaru
Successor:Călin Ioan Bot
Other Post:Coadjutor Bishop of Lugoj (1994-1995)
Ordination:8 May 1965
Consecration:8 September 1994
Consecrated By:Lucian Mureșan
Birth Date:1937 1, df=y
Birth Place:Ferneziu, Kingdom of Romania
Death Place:Lugoj, Romania
Nationality:Romanian

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

Life

Born in Ferneziu, now part of Baia Mare city, he graduated from Gheorghe Șincai 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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: PS Alexandru Mesian. ro. Romanian Greek Catholic Church. www.bru.ro. August 13, 2024.
  2. Web site: A trecut la cele veșnice Preasfinția Sa Alexandru Mesian, Episcopul Eparhiei Greco-Catolice de Lugoj. ro. Romanian Greek Catholic Church. bisericaromanaunita.ro. March 11, 2023. August 13, 2024.