Grigore Maior
Grigore Maior OSBM , born as Gavrilă Maior (* 1714 in Szeuka , Cluj County , Grand Duchy of Transylvania ; † February 1785 in Blaj ), was the Romanian-Greek Catholic Bishop of Făgăraş .
Life
The son of a Romanian priest entered the Order of the Basilians of St. Josaphat , he studied in Hungary ; in 1740, Bishop Inocențiu Micu Klein sent him to the Pontifical Greek College of St. Athanasius in Rome to further study philosophy and theology, with subsequent studies at the Pontifical Urban University ; there he received his doctorate in philosophy and theology. On December 25, 1745 he was ordained a religious priest in the Byzantine Church of St. Athanasius in Rome . In 1747 he returned to Blasendorf and entered the Holy Trinity Monastery there.
In the 1751 bishopric election for Bishop Micu Klein, who resigned on May 17, he had to let Petru Pavel Aron go first; In the 1764 election, after the death of Bishop Aron, Empress Maria Theresia appointed Atanasie Rednic as her successor.
On October 27, 1772 he was finally appointed bishop of Făgăraş and confirmed by Pope Clement XIV on March 8, 1773 . It was consecrated on May 4, 1773 in the church at the imperial court in Vienna by Basilius Bosicskovich OSBM, titular bishop of Diocletianopolis in Palestine , in the presence of Empress Maria Theresa and her son, who later became Emperor Joseph II. After its installation in the diocese of Făgăraş was he also personal advisor to the empress. He took care of the training of priests, had churches built and stood up for the rural population. A dispute with the Lutheran Union before the Court of Justice forced him to resign on September 22, 1783.
Retired in the monastery, he died at the beginning of February 1785 and was buried on February 6th in the bishop's vault in the Blaj cemetery.
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Major, Gregor . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 16th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1867, p. 310 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Entry on Grigore Maior on catholic-hierarchy.org
- Grigore Maior on the homepage of the Romanian Greek Catholic Church (Romanian)
Individual evidence
- ^ Hierarchia Catholica Medii et Recentioris Aevi, Volume 6, Page 218.
- ↑ Silvestru Augustin Prunduş, Clemente Plăianu Catholicism and Orthodoxy Romanian. Brief history of the Romanian United Church , Christian Life Publishing House, Cluj 1994.
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Atanasia Rednic |
Bishop of Făgăraș 1773–1782 |
Ioan Bob |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Maior, Grigore |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Maior, Gavrilă (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Romanian bishop of Făgăraș |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1714 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Szeuka , Cluj County , Grand Duchy of Transylvania |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 1785 |
| Place of death | Blaj |