ACI Prensa Staff, Sep 26, 2025 / 15:58 pm

Cardinal Lucian Mureşan, major archbishop of the Greek Catholic Church in Romania and a priest who was secretly ordained during persecution by the communist regime that fell in 1989, died Sept. 25.

According to Vatican News , Mureşan died at his residence in Blaj, Romania, after several months of illness. He was 94.

Mureşan was created a cardinal at the age of 80 in 2012, during the pontificate of Benedict XVI. This type of designation, when one has already surpassed the age to be an elector in a possible conclave, is a papal recognition of the service to the Church offered by the recipient.

Who was Cardinal Mureşan?

Lucian Mureşan was born on May 23, 1931, in Transylvania, in Ferneziu, a present-day district of the city of Baia Mare in Roma

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