Gurie Georgiu

He served as the first Bishop of the Diocese of Deva and Hunedoara from its establishment in 2009 until his death from COVID-19 complications in October 2021, amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Romania.

[1][2] Georgiu was born in the village of Huta, Cluj County, Romania, on 31 December 1968.

[1] Georgiu then completed his degree at the Faculty of Theology of the University of Craiova from 1992 to 1996.

[1] Following the establishment of the new Diocese of Deva and Hunedoara on 29 October 2009, Gurie Georgiu was elected as its first, founding bishop one month later on 29 November of the same year.

[1] Hospital officials decided to airlift him by helicopter to a larger medical center in Târgu Mureș, but he suffered cardiac arrest, a complication of COVID, during the transfer.