Virgil Bercea
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The Right Reverend Virgil Bercea |
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| Greek Catholic Bishop of Oradea Mare {Gran Varadino} | |
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| Church | Romanian Greek Catholic Church |
| Installed | 8 June 1997 |
| Predecessor | Vasile Hossu |
| Successor | incumbent |
| Other posts | Auxiliary Bishop of Făgăraş and Alba Iulia (1994-1997) |
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| Ordination | 9 December 1982 (Priest) |
| Consecration | 8 Sept 1994 (Bishop) by Lucian Mureșan |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
December 9, 1957 Habic, Mureş County, Romania |
| Nationality | Romanian |
Virgil Bercea (born 1957) is the Bishop of the Diocese of Oradea Mare of the Romanian Greek Catholic Church since 1997.
Virgil Bercea was born on 9 December 1957 in Habic, Mureş County, Romania. He studied in his town, and after the military service he attended the University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-Napoca from 1977 to 1981. He worked as agricultural engineer and researcher till 1990.
Supported by his uncle Archbishop Alexandru Todea, the clandestine leader of the Romanian Greek Catholic Church under the Communist Romania, he secretly studied theology, and on 9 December 1982 he was secretly ordained Priest. After ordination he served in underground as priest in the town of Târgu Mureş. After Romanian Revolution of 1989 he could go to attend a specialization in dogmatic theology in the Pontifical Urbaniana University, in Rome, and from 1992 he was appointed general vicar in Blaj.
On 20 July 1994 he was appointed auxiliary bishop of Greek Catholic Archdiocese of Făgăraş and Alba Iulia and so consecrated bishop by Major Archbishop Lucian Mureșan on 8 September 1994. On 6 November 1996 he was appointed coadjutor bishop of the Greek Catholic Diocese of Oradea Mare, to which he succeeded on 8 June 1997.
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