About Ioan Vancea
Lived 1820 – 1892 (aged 72). Ioan Vancea was an Austrian cleric and romanian Greek-Catholic bishop.
Ioan Vancea (; 18 May 1820 – 31 July 1892) was an Austro-Hungarian ethnic Romanian bishop of the Greek Catholic Church.
Born to noble parents in Vășad, Bihor County, he was ordained a priest in 1845 following studies in Oradea and Vienna. After the death of Ioan Alexi, he was consecrated Bishop of Gherla in 1865. Three years later, following the death of Alexandru Sterca-Șuluțiu, he was elected Archbishop of Făgăraș and Alba Iulia, enthroned at Blaj in 1869. He advocated the rights of Romanians in Transylvania and contested the authorities' policy of Magyarization. Vancea died in office in 1892.
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Romanian bishop (1820-1892)
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Ioan Vancea was born on 18 May 1820 in Vășad.
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Ioan Vancea died on 31 July 1892 in Blaj.
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Ioan Vancea was a cleric and romanian Greek-Catholic bishop.
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Ioan Vancea was Austrian.
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