Vasile Moga | |
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Church | Romanian Orthodox Church |
Diocese | Transylvania |
Installed | 29 June 1811 |
Term ended | 17 October 1845 |
Predecessor | Gerasim Adamović (d. 1796) |
Successor | Andrei Șaguna (from 1848) |
Orders | |
Ordination | 1798 |
Consecration | 23 April 1811 |
Personal details | |
Born | 1774 |
Died | October 17, 1845 Nagyszeben, Austrian Empire (now Sibiu, Romania) |
Buried | Annunciation Church |
Denomination | Eastern Orthodox Church |
Vasile Moga (Romanian pronunciation: [vaˈsile ˈmoɡa]; 1774 – October 17, 1845) was an Imperial Austrian ethnic Romanian bishop of the Romanian Orthodox Church. A native of Sebeș, he was a parish priest for some years before being made bishop of Transylvania. The first Romanian to hold this office in over a century, he served for over three decades. Living in Sibiu during this period, he worked both to improve the spiritual and educational foundations of the diocese and to secure additional rights for the province's Romanians.