Iuliu Hossu
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 54 years ago |
Date of birth | January 30,1885 |
Zodiac sign | Aquarius |
Born | Milas |
Romania | |
Date of died | May 28,1970 |
Died | Bucharest |
Romania | |
Successor | George Guțiu |
Predecessor | Vasile Hossu |
Ordination | March 27, 1910 |
Beatified | June 2, 2019 |
Creat cardin | 28 April 1969 ; 5 March 1973 (revealed); by Pope Paul VI |
Education | Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples |
Feast day | 28 May |
Church | Romanian Greek-Catholic Church |
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ID | 1319261 |
Iuliu Hossu Life story
Iuliu Hossu was a Romanian Greek-Catholic prelate who served as the Bishop of Cluj-Gherla. Pope Paul VI elevated Hossu to the rank of cardinal in pectore, that is, secretly, in 1969 but did not publish his appointment until after Hossu's death. The Communist authorities arrested Bishop Hossu on 28 October 1948.