Grigore Maior


Gavrila Grigore Maior was Bishop of Fgra and Primate of the Romanian Greek Catholic Church from 1773 to his resignation in 1782.

Gavrila Maior was born in 1715, in Sruad, Szatmr County . He studied at Cluj and later from 1740 in the College of the Propaganda, Rome where he onJanuary 1747 got a doctorate in theology and philosophy. He entered in the Basilian monastery of the Holy Trinity in Blaj taking the name of Grigore, and onDecember 1745 he was ordained a priest. He taught languages in Blaj.

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