Vasile Cristea, A.A. (24 February 1906 – 17 January 2000) was a Romanian Greek Catholic hierarch, an Official of the Roman Curia, an Apostolic Visitor for the Romanian Greek Catholic Church in diaspora, and as Titular Bishop of Lebedus.
Vasile Cristea, A.A. | |
|---|---|
| Official of the Roman Curia Titular Bishop of Lebedus | |
| Church | Romanian Greek Catholic Church |
| In office | 2 July 1960—10 October 1987 |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 27 March 1932 |
| Consecration | 8 September 1960 by Bishop Giovanni Mele |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 24 February 1906 |
| Died | January 17, 2000 (aged 93) Rome, Italy |
Born in Șomoștelnic, Austria-Hungary, now in Romania, Cristea joined the Assumptionist Fathers and was ordained as a Greek Catholic priest on 27 March 1932. In 1937 he was appointed as the first Rector of the Romanian Pontifical College in Rome, and was made a Bishop by the Holy See on 2 July 1960, being consecrated to the Episcopate on 8 September 1960. The principal consecrator was Bishop Giovanni Mele. Bishop Cristea retired on 10 October 1987.[1]
He died in Rome on 17 January 2000.
References
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