Vasile Cristea, A.A. (24 February 1906 – 17 January 2000) was a Romanian Greek Catholic hierarch, an Official of the Roman Curia, an Apostolic Visitor for the Romanian Greek Catholic Church in diaspora, and as Titular Bishop of Lebedus.
Born in Șomoștelnic, Austria-Hungary, now in Romania, Cristea joined the Assumptionist Fathers and was ordained as a Greek Catholic priest on 27 March 1932. In 1937 he was appointed as the first Rector of the Romanian Pontifical College in Rome, and was made a Bishop by the Holy See on 2 July 1960, being consecrated to the Episcopate on 8 September 1960. The principal consecrator was Bishop Giovanni Mele. Bishop Cristea retired on 10 October 1987.[1]
He died in Rome on 17 January 2000.
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