Victor Mihali

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Archbishop Victor Mihályi de Apsia

Victor Mihali also Victor Mihályi de Apsia (born May 19, 1841 in Ieud , Marmarosch County , Hungary , today in Romania ; † January 21, 1918 in Blaj ) was the Romanian-Greek Catholic Archbishop of Făgăraş and Alba Iulia .

Life

After primary school in his hometown, he attended the Piarist grammar school in Oradea ; after graduating from high school, he studied in Trnava and Košice . The Bishop of Gherla , Ioan Alexi , sent him to study theology at the Pontifical Greek College of St. Athanasius in Rome and as a scholarship holder of the Pius IX Foundation . "For the Romanian Church" at the Pontifical Urban University, where he received his doctorate in theology in 1863. On 8 November 1863, he was in the Church of the Pontifical Greek College of St.. Athanasius of Stefan Missir the titular bishop of Irenopolis in Cilicia the priest celibacy consecrated. In April 1864 he was appointed prefect and on October 1, 1864 professor of church history and canon law at the Theological Seminary in Gherla.

On November 25, 1874, he was appointed Bishop of Lugoj by imperial decree and was confirmed by the Pope on December 21, 1874. He was consecrated on February 14, 1875 in the Trinity Cathedral of Blaj by the Metropolitan Archbishop of Făgăraş and Alba Iulia Ioan Vancea . He was installed in his diocese on March 7, 1875 in Lugoj Cathedral. He visited over a hundred parishes and convened diocesan synods in 1882 and 1883.

on November 15, 1894 he was appointed Archbishop of Făgăraş and Alba Iulia. This appointment was confirmed by Pope Leo XIII on March 18, 1895 . The solemn enthronement in Blaj Cathedral took place on May 26, 1895.

He was no longer allowed to experience the establishment of the "Great Union of the Nation", the unification of Transylvania with the principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia , which had already been united in 1859 , on December 1, 1918 for which he had campaigned and fought. He died on January 21, 1918 and was buried in the crypt of Blaj Cathedral.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Annuario Pontificio, 1913.
  2. ↑ Annuario Pontificio, 1917.
  3. ↑ Hierarchia Catholica Medii et Recentioris Aevi, Volume 8, page 354.
  4. ↑ 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
Ioan Vancea Archbishop of Făgăraș and Alba Iulia
1895–1918 		Vasile Suciu
Ioan Olteanu Bishop of Lugoj
1874–1895 		Demetriu Radu
personal data
SURNAME Mihali, Victor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mihályi de Apsia, Victor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian priest, Archbishop of Făgăraș and Alba Iulia, Bishop of Lugoj
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Ieud
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1918
Place of death Blaj