Ioan Șișeștean

Ioan Șișeștean (11 June 1936 – 12 April 2011) was a Romanian prelate of the Greek Catholic Church who was the bishop of the Greek Catholic Diocese of Maramureș in Romania from 1994 until his death.

Biography He was born on 11 June 1936 in Șișești, Maramureș County, the eldest son of eight children born into a peasant family. He attended primary school in his home town and the Gheorghe Șincai Theoretical High School in Baia Mare. He worked briefly as a substitute teacher and then as a laboratory technician in a factory in Baia Mare. He studied theology clandestinely and was secretly ordained a priest on 13 March 1972 by Bishop Ioan Dragomir.

Șișeștean taught dogmatic theology at the Greek-Catholic Theological Institute in Baia Mare when it reopened. Bishop Lucian Mureșan named him Vicar of Maramureș early in 1994 and he was named to replace Mureșan as bishop on 4 July 1994.

Șișeștean died of a heart attack on 12 April 2011 in Baia Sprie.