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Vasile Hossu (bishop of Gherla)
Vasile Hossu
was a
Romanian Greek Catholic
hierarch. He was bishop of the
Romanian Catholic Eparchy of Lugoj
from 1903 to 1911 and the
Romanian Catholic Eparchy of Gherla, Armenopoli, Szamos-Ujvár
from 1911 to 1916.
Born in
Neumarkt am Mieresch
,
Austrian Empire
in 1866, he was
ordained
a
priest
on
27 August
1888
. He was
appointed
the Bishop by the
Holy See
on
25 June
1903. He was
consecrated
to the
Episcopate
on
21 September
1903. The
principal consecrator
was Archbishop
Victor Mihaly de Apșa
and co-consecrators were Bishop
Ioan Sabo
and Bishop
Demetriu Radu
.
He died in
Budapest
,
Austria-Hungary
on
13 January
1916.