Lucian Mureșan

His Eminent Beatitude Lucian Mureșan
Cardinal, Major Archbishop of Făgăraș-Alba Iulia
Church	Romanian Church United with Rome, Greek-Catholic
Archdiocese	Archdiocese of Făgăraș and Alba Iulia (Romanian)
Appointed	16 December 2005
Installed	30 April 2006
Predecessor	Alexandru Todea
Other post(s)	Cardinal-Priest of Sant'Atanasio Chairman of the Romanian Episcopal Conference
Orders
Ordination	19 December 1964 by Ioan Dragomir
Consecration	27 May 1990 by Alexandru Todea
Created cardinal	18 February 2012 by Benedict XVI
Rank	Cardinal-Priest
Personal details
Born	Lucian Mureșan (1931-05-23) 23 May 1931 Firiza, Romania
Nationality	Romanian
Denomination	Romanian Greek-Catholic
Previous post(s)	Bishop of Maramureș (1990–1994) Archbishop of Făgăraș și Alba Iulia (1994–2005)

Styles of Lucian Mureșan
Reference style	His Eminence
Spoken style	Your Eminence
Informal style	Cardinal
See	Greek Catholic Archdiocese of Făgăraș and Alba Iulia

Lucian Mureșan (born 23 May 1930) is the first and current Major Archbishop of the Greek Catholic Archdiocese of Făgăraș and Alba Iulia and a cardinal of the Catholic Church. As Major Archbishop of Făgăraș and Alba Iulia (resident in Blaj), he is the head of the Romanian Church United with Rome, Greek-Catholic.

Life

Lucian Mureșan was born in the village of Firiza (now the Ferneziu district of Baia Mare), Romania, the tenth of Peter and Maria Mureșan's twelve children. He attended primary school in Firiza and secondary school in Baia Mare. For a long time, he was forced to put on hold his call to becoming a Catholic priest, because the Romanian Church United with Rome had been outlawed in 1948.

Pope Benedict XVI created him a Cardinal-Priest of Sant'Atanasio in a consistory on 18 February 2012. As he was already older than 80 at the time of his creation, he has no right to vote in a papal conclave.

External links

• "Mureșan Card. Lucian". Holy See Press Office. Archived from the original on 4 September 2017. Retrieved 6 December 2017.