Grigore Maior

Grigore Maior OSBM, born Gavrilă Maior (* 1714 in Szeuka, Cluj county, the Grand Duchy of Transylvania, † February 1785 in Blaj ), was Romanian Greek- Catholic Bishop of Fagaras.

Life

The son of a Romanian priest entered the Order of Basilian St. Jehoshaphat one, he studied in Hungary; in 1740 Bishop Inocenţiu Micu Klein sent him for further study of philosophy and theology at the Pontifical Greek College of St. Athanasius in Rome with connection studies at the Pontifical Urban University; there he became a Doctor of Philosophy and Doctor of Theology. On December 25, 1745, he was ordained in the Byzantine church of St. Athanasius in Rome for religious priests. In 1747 he returned to Blasendorf and entered Holy Trinity in the local monastery.

In the election of bishops in 1751 for the retired on May 17, Bishop Micu Klein Petru Pavel Aron he had to defer; in the election in 1764, after the death of Bishop Aron, proclaimed Empress Maria Theresa Atanasie Rednic successor.

On October 27, 1772, he was eventually appointed bishop of Fagaras and confirmed on March 8, 1773 by Pope Clement XIV. He was consecrated on May 4, 1773 in the church at the imperial court in Vienna by Basil Bosicskovich OSBM, Titular Bishop of Diocletianopolis in Palestine, in the presence of Empress Maria Theresa and her son, the future Emperor Joseph II. Upon his installation in the diocese of Fagaras he was also a personal adviser to the Empress. He cared about the training of priests, was to build churches and campaigned for the rural population. A dispute with the Lutheran Union before the Court on September 22, 1783 forced him to resign.

Withdrawn in the monastery he died in early February 1785 and was buried on February 6 in the Bishop vault in the cemetery in Blaj.