Vasile Aftenie | |
|---|---|
| Auxiliary Bishop of Făgăraș and Alba Iulia | |
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| Church | Romanian Greek Catholic Church |
| Appointed | 12 April 1940 |
| Term ended | 10 May 1950 |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 1 January 1926
(Priest) by Vasile Suciu |
| Consecration | 5 June 1940
(Bishop) by Alexandru Nicolescu |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 14 June 1899 Lodroman, Kis-Küküllő County, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | 10 May 1950 (aged 50) Văcărești Prison, Bucharest, Romanian People's Republic[1] |
| Sainthood | |
| Feast day | 10 May |
| Beatified | 2 June 2019 Liberty Field, Blaj, Romania by Pope Francis |
Vasile Aftenie (14 June 1899 – 10 May 1950) was a Romanian Auxiliary bishop of the Greek-Catholic Church, titular Bishop of Ulpiana, martyr of the faith and Servant of God of the Catholic Church.[2]
He was beaten until his death in the communist regime's jails for refusing to abandon his Greek-Catholic faith and the United Romanian Church. Pope Francis personally presided over his beatification on 2 June 2019.[3][4][5][6]
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