John Michael Botean
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John Michael Botean (b July 9, 1955) Currently serving as the 2nd bishop in the Eparchy of Saint George in Canton, Ohio after Bishop Louis Puscas, in the United States' sole Romanian Byzantine Catholic eparchy and the sole Romanian Rite eparchy outside of Romania[1].
[edit] Monasticism
In 2005 Bishop Botean succeeded in bringing to life traditional Romanian Byzantine Catholic monasticism in the Diocese of Canton with the transferral of Holy Ressurection Monastery to diocesan jurisdiction. On October 17, 2006 Holy Theophany Monastery (a nunnery) was established as a dependency of Holy Ressurection Monastery under the jurisdiction of Bishop Botean.
[edit] Iraq War
Bishop Botean achieved a measure of national and international notice in his Lenten pastoral letter of 2003 which spoke out against the Iraq war in the most outspoken terms committed to paper by a US Catholic bishop. The letter was a direct condemnation of the war and termed it "objectively grave evil, a matter of mortal sin."
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