Imre Erőss
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Imre Alfréd Erőss (7 July 1909 – 31 July 1950) was a Romanian cleric and Roman Catholic bishop.
Born into an ethnic Hungarian family in Prisian (Perestyén) in what is now Caraş-Severin County, he began his studies at the in Timișoara. His father objected to his wish of becoming a Jesuit, and so he continued his studies in Târgu Secuiesc. He began his theological education at the before continuing in Rome from 1929 to 1937, being ordained a priest there in 1935. He was a hospital chaplain at Cluj in 1937 and supervised seminarians at Alba Iulia from 1938 to 1941 before returning to teach dogmatics at Cluj until 1944. From then until 1949, he taught World War II refugees at Zirc. In 1949, he was consecrated bishop in Bucharest. He died in a hospital in Cluj and was buried in Turda.[1]
Erőss published a number of theological works.[1]
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- ^ Jump up to: a b (in Hungarian) Erőss at the Magyar Katolikus Lexikon site; accessed May 12, 2012
- 1909 births
- 1950 deaths
- People from Caraș-Severin County
- Romanian religious leaders of Hungarian descent
- Romanian theologians
- Romanian anti-communist clergy
- 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Romania
- Collegium Germanicum et Hungaricum alumni