 During his service the Diocese of Alba Iulia and Făgăraş (centred at Blaj) was removed from the jurisdiction of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Esztergom (in Hungary) and became an ecclesiastic province in its own right, with the Dioceses of Oradea Mare, Gherla and Lugoj as suffragans (subordinate dioceses).Born in Abrud, Șuluțiu came from a noble Romanian family of Transylvania.The roots of the family seem to be very old, as the Italian spelling of this family name is Sollozzo.