Ioan Giurgiu Patachi

Ioan Giurgiu Patachi OSBM, also Constantin de Nemes Patak, (* 1682 in Strambu - Baiut, Szolnok county - Doboka, Principality Transylvania, † October 29, 1727 in Fagaras ), was Romanian Greek- Catholic Bishop of Fagaras.

Life

Ioan Giurgiu came as the son of Romanian parents in what was then the Principality of Transylvania belonging Strambu - Baiut (Hungarian: Horgospatak ) to the world. The aristocracy name de Patak or Pataky is derived from the Hungarian place name of Strambu - Baiut. His parents died early, and he was educated by the Jesuits, the Jesuit College in Cluj visited, studied in Szombathely, Vienna and Rome. On September 24, 1707 he was ordained priest. In 1712 he went as a missionary of the Romanian Latin Rite, in Wallachia. On February 14, 1717 he put the profession in the community of Basilian St. Jehoshaphat from.

Upon the establishment of the Diocese of Fagaras on May 18, 1721, Pope Innocent XIII. with the Apostolic Constitution Rationi congruit Ioan Giurgiu Patachi was appointed on June 15, 1717 the first bishop of the new diocese of Fagaras. He was consecrated on August 17, 1723 by Rafael Marković, OSBas the Titular Bishop of Plataea. On August 17, 1723, he was solemnly installed in the St. Nicholas Cathedral of Fagaras.

After only four years in the episcopacy died Bishop Ioan Giurgiu Patachi, at the age of only forty-five years, and was buried in Fagaras.