| Honorific Prefix: | Venerable |
| Petro Pavlo Oros | |
| Birth Date: | 1917 7, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Biri, Austro-Hungarian Empire |
| Death Place: | Siltse, Irshava raion, Soviet Union |
| Titles: | Martyr |
Petro Pavlo Oros (Ukrainian: Петро Павло Орос, Hungarian: Orosz Péter Pál; 14 July 1917 – 27 August 1953) was a Greek Catholic Eparchy of Mukachevo hierarch after the Church was suppressed by the communist regime. He was an auxiliary bishop of the Ruthenian Catholic Eparchy of Mukacheve from 1944 to 1953, when he was murdered by an anti-faith police officer.[1]
He is a martyr of the Catholic Church. His beatification was approved in August 2022.[2]
Born in Biri, Austria-Hungary Empire (present day – Hungary) in 1917 in the family of a Greek-Catholic priest. His father died when Petro was 2 years old and his mother died when he was age 9. He studied for the Holy Priesthood in the Theological Seminary of Uzhhorod from 1937 to 1942 and was ordained a priest on 26 June 1942 for the Greek Catholic Eparchy of Mukachevo.[3] On 19 December 1944 he was clandestinely consecrated to the Episcopate as auxiliary bishop. The principal and single consecrator was blessed bishop Theodore Romzha.[4]
He was shot by communist police officer in Siltse, Irshava raion, Zakarpattia Oblast after celebration of the Divine Liturgy on 27 August 1953.[5]
The martyrdom of Oros was recognized by Pope Francis on August 5, 2022. The promulgation of the date of his beatification is currently pending.[6]