Imre Erőss, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Imre Erőss

Roman Catholic bishop

Date of Birth: 07-Jul-1909

Place of Birth: Prisian, Caraș-Severin County, Romania

Date of Death: 31-Jul-1950

Profession: poet, Catholic priest

Nationality: Hungary, Romania

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Imre Alfréd Eross (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 Caras-Severin County, he began his studies at the Piarist High School in Timisoara.
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 Roman Catholic Theological Institute of Alba Iulia 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.Eross published a number of theological works.