Ioan Bob

Ioan Bob, was Bishop of Fgra and Primate of the Romanian Greek Catholic Church from 1783 to his death in 1830.

Ioan Bob was born from a noble Romanian family in October or November 1739 in Orman, near Iclod in Kolozs County, now Romania. He attended the secondary schools by the Jesuits but fallen ill he could not enter in seminary. In 1764 he entered as novice in the Basilian monastery of Blaj. After some months, because he could not bear the strict discipline, he withdraw from the monastic life working simply as lay administrator of the monastery. In 1773 he was sent by his friend Bishop Grigore Maior to study in Trnava where he graduated in theology. Returned to Romania, after a period of illness he moved to Blaj where onDecember 1777 he was ordained a deacon and onApril 1778 a priest. He worked for some months in the diocesan chancery. In 1778 he was appointed Dean in Daia Romn and in 1779 to Trgu Mure.

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