Virgil Bercea

Virgil Bercea (born 9 December 1957) is the Bishop of the Eparchy of Oradea Mare of the Romanian Greek Catholic Church since 1997.

After Romanian Revolution of 1989 he could go to attend a specialization in dogmatic theology in the Pontifical Urbaniana University, in Rome, and from 1992 he was appointed general vicar in Blaj.

On 6 November 1996, he was appointed coadjutor bishop of the Romanian Catholic Eparchy of Oradea Mare, to which he succeeded on 8 June 1997.

[1][2] In 2000, Virgil Bercea was awarded the Romanian National Order of "Faithful Service" with the rank of Commander by the President of Romania.

On 7 February 2004, Bercea was granted by the President of Romania of the Order of Cultural Merit in the rank of Commander in the Religious category, "as a token of appreciation for the work of Your Holiness in the field of religion, to ecumenical and civic spirit shown and the contribution you brought it to strengthen interfaith relations."