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{{Infobox Christian leader
|name = Ioan Bob
|image=IoanBob.jpg
|bishop_of = [[List of Major Archbishops of Făgăraş and Alba Iulia|Primate of the Romanian Greek Catholic Church]]
|church = [[Romanian Greek Catholic Church]]
|diocese = [[Greek Catholic Archdiocese of Făgăraş and Alba Iulia|Diocese of Făgăraş]]
|appointed = 15 December 1783
|ended =2 October 1830
|predecessor = [[Grigore Maior]]
|successor = [[Ioan Lemeni]]
|ordination = 8 April 1778 ([[Priesthood (Catholic Church)|Priest]])
|consecration = 6 June 1784 ([[Bishop (Catholic Church)|Bishop]])
|consecrated_by= [[Grigore Maior]]
|enthroned = 2 July 1784
|birth_date = 1739
|birth_place = Orman, [[Cluj County]]
|death_date = {{BirthDeathAge||1739|||1830|10|2|yes}}
|death_place = [[Blaj]]
}}
'''Ioan Bob''', (1739 – 2 October 1830) was [[List of Major Archbishops of Făgăraş and Alba Iulia|Bishop of Făgăraş]] and [[Primate (bishop)|Primate]] of the [[Romanian Greek Catholic Church]] from 1783 to his death in 1830.
== Life ==
Ioan Bob was born from a [[Nobility|noble]] Romanian family in October or November 1739 in Orman, near [[Iclod]] ({{langx|hu|[[Nagyiklód|Nagy-Iklód]]}}) in [[Kolozs County]], now [[Romania]]. He attended the secondary schools by the [[Jesuits]] but fallen ill he could not enter in [[seminary]]. In 1764, he entered as [[novice]] in the [[Order of Saint Basil the Great|Basilian]] monastery of [[Blaj]]. After some months, because he could not bear the strict discipline, he withdraw from the monastic life working simply as lay administrator of the monastery. In 1773, he was sent by his friend Bishop [[Grigore Maior]] to study in [[Trnava]] where he graduated in theology.<ref name="BRU1">{{cite book|first=Flaviu|last=Popan|title=Biserica Română Unită două sute cincizeci de ani de istorie|volume=1|location=Cluj-Napoca|year=1998|ISBN=973-9288-11-1|pages=50–56}}</ref><ref name="BRU">{{cite web|url=http://www.bru.ro/blaj/lista-episcopilor/ps-ioan-bob/|title=Episcopul Ioan Bob|work=BRU|access-date=9 April 2011}}</ref> Returned to Romania, after a period of illness, he moved to Blaj where, on 25 December 1777, he was ordained a [[deacon]] and, on 8 April 1778, a [[Priesthood (Catholic Church)|priest]].<ref name="HC6">{{cite encyclopedia|author=Ritzler, Remigius|title=Fogariensis|encyclopedia=Hierarchia catholica Medii aevi sive summorum pontificum, S.R.E. cardinalium, ecclesiarum antistitum series|volume=6|pages=218|location=Padua|year=1958}}</ref> He worked for some months in the [[diocesan chancery]]. In 1778, he was appointed [[Dean (Christianity)|Dean]] in [[Daia Română]] and in 1779 to [[Târgu Mureş]].
In 1782, the Primate of the Romanian Greek Catholic Church, the [[Greek Catholic Archdiocese of Făgăraş and Alba Iulia|Bishop of Făgăraş]] Grigore Maior, resigned. According to the praxis, the electoral synod was convened in August 1782 and Bob resulted the third voted. Nevertheless, he was designated by the [[Emperor Joseph II]] on 21 October 1783,<ref name="HC6"/> probably because he was the only non-monk voted, and confirmed by [[Pope Pius VI]] on 15 December 1783. Accordingly, he was consecrated [[Bishop (Catholic Church)|bishop]], on 6 June 1784, by [[Grigore Maior]]<ref name="CH">{{Catholic-hierarchy|bishop|bbabb|Bishop Ioan (Janos) Bob (Babb)|23 January 2015}}</ref> and enthroned on 2 July 1784.
Bob was a firm supporter of the rights of the Romanian population under the [[Holy Roman Emperor|Holy Roman Empire]]. He actually, along with the [[Romanian Orthodox Church|Orthodox]] bishop [[Gherasim Adamovici]], signed and brought the [[Supplex Libellus Valachorum]] before the Imperial Court of Vienna on March 30, 1792. This courageous act was rejected anyway.
Bob introduced an authoritarian model of leadership in his Church which led also to some clashes.<ref name="BRU"/> He died on 2 October 1830.
He wrote a Dictionary of [[Romanian language]] published in [[Cluj]] (1822–1823), with about 11,000 Romanian words, which also gives the equivalent [[Latin]] and [[Hungarian language|Hungarian]]. He promoted the printing of religious books, handbooks, and theological books. He also supported the edition of the [[Bible]] in Romanian known as ''Bible of Blaj'' (translated by [[Samuil Micu]] and published in 1795), the second translation of the [[Holy Scriptures]] in Romanian.
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