Alexandru Mesian

Alexandru Mesian (22 January 1937 – 11 March 2023) was a Romanian Greek-Catholic hierarch.

The Right Reverend Alexandru Mesian
Romanian Catholic Bishop of Lugoj
Church	Romanian Greek Catholic Church
Diocese	Romanian Catholic Eparchy of Lugoj
Installed	20 November 1995
Term ended	11 March 2023
Predecessor	Ioan Ploscaru
Successor	Călin Ioan Bot
Other post(s)	Coadjutor Bishop of Lugoj (1994-1995)
Orders
Ordination	8 May 1965
Consecration	8 September 1994 by Lucian Mureșan
Personal details
Born	(1937-01-22)22 January 1937 Ferneziu, Kingdom of Romania
Died	11 March 2023(2023-03-11) (aged 86) Lugoj, Romania
Nationality	Romanian

Life

Born in Ferneziu, now part of Baia Mare city, he graduated from Gheorghe Șincai High School. Admitted to the Roman Catholic Theological Institute of Iași in 1957, Mesian was expelled on the orders of the communist authorities the same year, as he was from a family that belonged to the banned Greek-Catholic Church. He performed his military service from 1957 to 1960, working as a technician in Baia Mare from 1950 to 1990. Mesian studied theology and was ordained a priest in secret in 1965, emerging into the open in 1990, after the fall of the regime. In 1994, he was consecrated auxiliary bishop for the Lugoj Eparchy, advancing to bishop in 1996 with the retirement of Ioan Ploscaru.^[1]

Mesian died in Lugoj on 11 March 2023, at the age of 86.^[2]