Alexandru Rusu was a Romanian Greek-Catholic bishop born in 1884 in Șăulia. After being ordained a priest in 1910, he was appointed as the Bishop of Maramureș in 1931. He later became the Major Archbishop of Făgăraș and Alba Iulia in 1946, though this leadership role was not recognized by the communist government. Following the outlawing of his church, he faced arrest and imprisonment by the state authorities.