Călin Ioan Bot

Bishop Călin Ioan Bot (born 24 July 1970) is a Romanian Greek Catholic hierarch, who has served as an Eparchial Bishop of the Romanian Catholic Eparchy of Lugoj since 16 June 2023. Previously he was the Titular Bishop of Abrittum and an Auxiliary Bishop of Eparchy of Lugoj since 22 January 2020 until 16 June 2023.

Life Bishop Bot was born in Surduc, and joined the Greek-Catholic Theological Institute St. John the Evangelist in Cluj-Napoca (1991–1995).

In 2017 he was appointed protosyncellus of the Eparchy of Cluj-Gherla and in addition to the spiritual direction and didactic activities at the Inochentie Micu Seminary Lyceum in Cluj-Napoca, he was an eparchial adviser on education-formative issues of his native eparchy.

On 22 January 2020, he was confirmed by the Pope Francis as an Auxiliary Bishop of the Romanian Catholic Eparchy of Lugoj and Titular Bishop of Abrittum. On 21 June 2020, he was consecrated as bishop by Major Archbishop Cardinal Lucian Mureșan and other hierarchs of the Romanian Greek Catholic Church at the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Blaj.

On 16 March 2023 Bishop Bot was appointed as an Archiepiscopal Administrator of the vacant Romanian Catholic Eparchy of Lugoj, after the death of Bishop Alexandru Mesian and on 16 June 2023 become the Eparchial bishop of the same Eparchy.