ABRUDAN, DUMITRU (?); Baptist pastor. Served in Oradea; arrested on 13.11.1978; sentenced to 6 months in prison; place of detention: the penitentiary of Satu Mare.

ACATRINEI, MIHAI; b. 1910 Movileni, Iassy County; Orthodox priest. Served at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Iassy; arrested and sentenced in 1947; reasons: sedition against the USSR, antidemocratic attitude; place of detention: Aiud, Poarta Alba, Gherla.

ACHIRILEI, IOSIF; Orthodox priest. Served at the parish of Piatra Taieturii (?); shot in 1948 on the order of the political police.

ADAM, ANDREI; b. 21.08.1922 Zervesti, Caras-Severin County; Orthodox priest. Attended the Theological Academy of Caransebes; clerk at the Bishopric of Caransebes as of 13.08.1945; ordained priest at Zervesti in 1948. Under the Ministry of Cults decision no. 36457/1948 his salary was withheld until clarification of the situation; arrested on 17.06.1948; reason: sedition; tried and convicted by the Timisoara Military Court to 5 years and 7 months under Sentence no. 18/1953; places of detention: Timisoara, Aiud, Cavnic, Baia Mare and Ocnele Mari (between 1950 and 1951); releasedon 17.11.1953; after his release he had lay jobs; as of 01.08.1958 he returned to the clergy, being appointed to the parish of Salbagel in the deanery of Lugoj; on 01.10.1963 he relocated at the Bucosnita parish, in the deanery of Caransebes; from 01.03.1972 he served at the Zervesti parish; retired on 01.11.1994.

ADAM, NICOLAE; Orthodox priest. Served in com. Racatau, Bacau County; priest C. Galeriu knows that he died in prison.

ADAMUT, DUMITRU; Orthodox priest. Served at Adjudeni, Neamt County, convicted; reason: the building of a church.

ADORIAN, [...]; Greek-catholic priest.Served as vicar in Arad; imprisoned in 1945 at the camp of Caracal.

ADY, BELA; b. 1907 Someseni, Cluj County; Reformed priest. Served at Borla, Salaj County; arrested in 1951; sentenced to 3 years in jail; reason: instigation; place of detention: the Canal; currently living in Cluj.

AESCHONFELD, NICO; rabbi. Served in Arad; arrested between 1953 and 1959. For no reason; currently living in Israel.

AFTENIE, VASILE; b. 14.07.1899 com. Londroman, Alba County; d. 10.05.1950; Greek-Catholic auxiliary bishop and vicar; Attended high school and then theology in Blaj; doctor's degree in Theology in Rome; ordained priest in 1925; rector of the Theological Academy in Blaj; he became an auxiliary bishop of the Greek-Catholic Metropolitanate of Blaj in 1940; vicar general of Bucharest; arrested on 28.10.1948; imprisoned at the Dragoslavele Monastery together with another five Greek-Catholic bishops; in May 1949 he was taken to the Ministry of Internal Affairs for interrogation; tortured to provide information about the aid given by Catholic youth organizations to those who had sought refuge in the mountains; killed during an investigation on 10.05.1950; buried at the Bellu Cemetery in Bucharest; "After the start of the communist persecution against faith, he remained amid his followers in the capital-city, guiding, encouraging, and inspiriting them. In vain did the Groza Cabinet try to draw him to their side: Bishop Vasile Aftenie remained loyal to the Church he was serving. Isolated from the other bishops, investigated brutally, tortured by the political police... Vasile Aftenie, the most modern and sociable of the six bishops, does not yield. For one year did he resist these torments... Today, the body once tortured horribly rests at the Bellu Cemetery, where the believers continue to stop at his grave, attributing it miraculous gifts."He was assassinated on Gen. Nikolschi's order. Due to the maneuvering of the political police, the burial was not done immediately, so that the day of his death is recorded as 10 May. The Roman-Catholic priest asked to officiate at the funeral opened the casket and saw a big wound on the head of the deceased. For his daring, priest I. Baltheier, too, was arrested. All this was reported by Bishop Aftenie's manservant, Luca; he was tortured, his beard was torn out and he was killed with a crowbar. Nc. Auxiliary bishop at the Bishopric of Alba-Iulia and Fagaras; reason of arrest: possession of a letter from luliu Mamu; in March 1949 he was transferred to the Caldarusani Monastery and in April 1950 to the Ministry of Internal Affairs for investigation, where pressure was used to determine him to convert to Orthodoxy.

AGAPIE, MIRCEA; mn. MINA; Orthodox priest. Served at Carpestii Mari, Beius; convicted by the Military Court of Timisoara, Bihor County, under Sentence no. 308 of 27.06.1959, to 5 years of correctional prison and 5 years of correctional interdiction, with total confiscation of personal wealth; reason: sedition; released in 1964.

AGEU, ION; b. 13.03.1917 Buhani, Arad County; Orthodox priest. Biog. Served as a priest and professor at the Theological Academy in Arad; arrested in 1948; sentenced by the Bucharest Military Court to 25 years of forced labour; reason: crime of sedition; places of detention: Ministry of Internal Affairs, Jilava, Arad, Timisoara, Capul Midia; released in 1964; currently a pensioner living in Arad.

AIOANEI, NECULAI N; b. 10.04.1924 com. Pipirig, Neamt County; Orthodox church chanter. Served at the parish of Pipirig; arrested between 01.06.1948 and 23.07.1953; administrative sentence of 5 years and one month in prison; released by order no. 4875/1953 from Gherla; reintegrated as church chanter on 1 August 1953, at the Pipirig parish (Archbishopric of Iassy); retired on 15.07.1991.

AIRINITOAEI, GHEORGHE; Orthodox priest. Served as priest at the Teioasa-Darabani parish in Botosani County; arrested in 1952; places of detention: Suceava, Onesti; released in 1954; house arrest in the Baragan; he returned to Botosani, where he died.

ALADAR, VASVARY; Roman-Catholic priest. His presence in the Sighet prison was reported.

ALBEANU, MIHAI; Orthodox priest. Biog. Arrested; died at Periprava.

ALBEANU, PANTELIMON; Orthodox priest. Born in Gorj County; served in Salaj County; arrested; died at Periprava.

ALBERT, PETRU; Roman-Catholic priest. Arrested on 17.01.1961 at Halaucesti and taken to Roman, then to Bacau; the investigation ended on 22.01.1963; sentenced to 12 years of forced labour; after appeal, to 8 years; granted a pardon under Decree 411/1964; currently working at the Franciscan Seminary in Roman.

ALBESCU, NICOLAE; Orthodox priest. Held in custody for one year at the headquarters of the political police in Iassy.

ALBU, PAMFIL TOADER; head of Jehovah's Witnesses. Sentenced for his religion; places of detention: the lead mines at Baia Sprie and Cavnic; Jilava in 1951. He crossed the border into Yugoslavia and after several years in detention he was handed over at Cavnic.

ALBU, ROMULUS D; d. 08.04.1988; Orthodox priest. Served the parish of Pane, the Deva deanery, between 07.10.1935 and 01.12.1942 when he was transferred to the parish of Harau, Deva deanery (the Bishopric of Prad); convicted by the Military Court of Brasov, under Sentence no. 138/25.05.1960, to 8 years in prison; reason: possession of banned publications; he did time between 26.12.1959 and 25.06.1964, being granted a pardon under decree no. 310/1964; released from Aiud by order no. 4523/1964; reinstated, on 01.09.1964, at the parish of Lapugiul Inferior, in the Deva deanery; retired on 01.01.1979.

ALBU, VASILE; Greek-Catholic priest. Arrested on 25.08.1949, alongside another four Greek-Catholic priests; on 25.03.1954 he was imprisoned at Poarta Alba; he did 5 years at the Canal.

ALDEA, ANDREI; b. 09.03.1914 Benvoi, Brasov County; Orthodox priest. Biog. Appointed priest on 08.12.1940 in the Aiud deanery; arrested in 1952 and sentenced to 3 years; reason: aiding and abetting, according to Sentence no. 2825/1954; place of detention: the Canal; transferred on 01.09.1965 to the Felmer parish, Brasov County, wherefrom he retired on 01.07.1979; deceased. Sentenced in 1959 to 3 years of correction.

ALECU, MARIN I.; b. 06.05.1910 com. Balcescu, Calarasi County; Orthodox priest. Served at the Al. Odobescu parish in Calarasi County; arrested in 1952; reason: sedition; administrative sentencing to 1 year and 10 months (18.07.1952- 07.05.1954); places of detention: Slobozia, Calarasi, Onesti, Borzesti, Poarta Alba, Gales, the Canal; released from Onesti by order no. 9131/07.05.1954. Nc. Born at Independents - Calarasi; sentenced to 2 years in prison.

ALECU, ZAMFIR I.; b. 16.01.1915 com. Independents Calarasi County; Orthodox priest. Biog. Served at the Ciocanesti-Sarbi parish in Calarasi County (Archbishopric of Bucharest); arrested on 19.07.1952 and imprisoned preventively under mandate no. 18944/1955 of the Bucharest Military Court; reason: activity against the working class; places of detention: Slobozia, Calarasi, and the Canal; released from Jilava on 26.08.1955 on the basis of the Bucharest Military Court's address no. 29004/1955, with release order no. 22/26.08.1955; reinstated at his parish; currently living in com. Ciocanesti-Margineni, Calarasi County.

ALEXANDRESCU, ALEXANDRU T.; b. 15.10.1894 com. Bucu, Ialomita County; Orthodox priest. Served the Sf. Imparati parish in Calarasi (Archbishopric of Bucharest); sentenced, on the basis of minutes no. 2/1952, to 5 years in prison; detained between 16.08.1952 and 14.08.1953; released from Vacaresti with release order no. 18175/14.08.1953; after the first arrest, reinstated at his parish and then arrested again on 06.01.1959; convicted by the Bucharest Military Court, under Sentence no. 79417/08.1959, to 16 years of hard prison, loss of civic rights for 8 years, and confiscation of his entire wealth; reason: crime of sedition; he did time from 06.01.1959 till 15.04.1964; the rest of the sentence was pardoned under decree no. 176/1964; released from Aiud, with order no. 2521/1964. Nc. Born at Tutova; imprisoned at Caracal in 1945; dismissed from his office.

ALEXANDRESCU, CONSTANTIN I.; b. 26.07.1914 com. Mihalceni, Vrancea County; d. 10.05.1983; Orthodox priest. Served at the St. Ioan Church, a subsidiary of the St. Dumitru-Uzina parish of Focsani (Bishopric of Buzau); convicted by the Constanta Military Court, under Sentence no. 259/15.05.1959, to 10 years in jail; reason: sedition; he did time between 07.02.1952 and 01.08.1964; granted a pardon for the remaining time by decree no. 411/1964; reinstated at the Dragosloveni parish in Vrancea County; on 01.09.1968 he transferred to the Donie parish in Focsani which he served until his death.

ALEXANDRESCU, COSTICA; Orthodox priest. Served at Dascalesti, Buzau County; arrested.

ALEXANDRESCU, IOAN D.; b. 12.09.1887 com. Chiajna, Chitila; Orthodox priest. Served at the Rasi parish, the Lehliu deanery (Archbishopric of Bucharest); convicted by the Constanta Military Court, under sentence no. 137/26.02.1951, to 2 years in prison; reason: public sedition; he did time between 30.11.1950 and 20.07.1953; released from Aiud by order no.45/52 of 20.07.1953; reinstated at his parish.

ALEXANDRESCU, TANASACHE; b. 02.09.1910 com. Nicoresti, Galati County; Orthodox priest. Held in custody between 19.07.1952 and 02.06.1954; administrative detainee; reason: activity within the Legion; he retired on 01.06.1976 from the Tatarani parish, in the deanery of Husi, Vaslui County.

ALEXANDRESCU, VASILE ST.; b. 11.08.1906 com. Grebanu, Buzau County; d. 12.05.1985; Orthodox priest.Served at the Holy Trinity Church and at the Sf. Hie parish of Braila; held in custody for 7 months (1952).

ALEXANDRU, ANTON D.; b. 04.10.1915, com. Gropnita, Iasi County; Orthodox priest. Served at Gropnita (01.04.1939-01.09.1942) as church chanter, and as priest at the parish of Gainarii Vechi (Bessarabia; 01.11.1942-01.08.1944) as well as at the parish of Mihailesti, Pascani deanery (01.11.1945-19.07.1952); first arrested between 19.07.1952 and 05.05.1954; he returned to Mihailesti and was again arrested on 24.09.1959; sentenced by the Iasi Military Court, under Sentence no. 323/1960, to 8 years in prison; reason: sedition; places of detention: Bicaz, Borzesti, Aiud; he did time between 24.09.1959 and 31.07.1964; released from Aiud, with release bulletin no. 5948/1964; employed as an unskilled labourer at IPROFIL Mobila Iasi (09.09.1964-01.08.1968) and then reinstated as priest at the Scheia parish, the Pascani deanery (01.08.1968-01.11.1979); retired.

ALEXANDRU, CLEMENTINE; b. 1908 Husi; Roman-Catholic nun. Biog. Arrested in 1951; sentenced to 2 years; deceased.

ALEXANDRU, GRUIA; Orthodox priest. Served at the Herneacova parish, Timis County; imprisoned for political reasons.

ALEXANDRU, ION; Orthodox priest. Died in prison at Aiud.

ALEXANDRU, MIHAI; b. 1906; d. 1986 in the village Budisteanu, Braila County; Orthodox priest. Served at the Church in the village of Filiu-Budisteanu and at the Jirlau parish, Galati County; arrested in 1952; detained under an administrative sentence (18.07.1952-28.06.1954) and then subjected to house arrest in com. Olaru, Calarasi County. He was arrested and convicted after the village had been scorched and the church demolished (after having been robbed). The priest's energetic protests led to his arrest. Nc. Sentenced to 6 years.

ALEXE, NICULINA; mn. CASIANA; b. 10.11.1926 Galieni Vrancea; Orthodox nun. Served at the Tudor Vladimirescu Monastery; arrested in 1958; sentenced to 9 months; reason: unauthorized wearing of uniform; place of detention: Galati; currently living at the Vladimiresti Monastery.

ALI, MUTALIP SAGIP; b. 13.04.1907 Cobadin, Constanta County; imam. Served at Cobadin; arrested in 1952; sentenced to 25 years; reason: crime of high treason; place of detention: Gherla; deceased.

ALIONTE, [...]; Orthodox priest. Served at Gruiu, Ilfov County; in 1951 he opposed, together with the peasants, the collectivization; arrested in 1951.

ALISIE, PAVEL; Orthodox priest. Served at the Slimnic parish, Sibiu County; arrested between 19.07.1952 and 07.05.1954; administrative detainee; released from Onesti, by order no. 9131/1954; retired on 01.04.1962 from the parish of Avzig II, Sibiu County; he died on 31.03.1972.

AMARAZEANU, ION; b. 22.02.1911 Bulzesti, Valcea County; church chanter. Biog. Served at Bulzesti; arrested in 1952-1955 and 1959-1961; reason: sedition.

AMBROZIE, GEORGE; Greek-Catholic priest. Places of detention: Periprava, Grindu; died at Periprava.

AMBRUS, CERNAT EMIL; Orthodox priest. Places of detention: Periprava, Grindu; he died in detention in the winter of 1959/1960. Ev. He belonged to the same batch as Avramescu Cornel and Dumitrescu Viorel, priests who sided with priest Gh. Dumitreasa Calciu and signed a petition for the authorities; the consequence was that the political police arrested them; they were put under surveillance, interrogated, harassed and tortured and, eventually, they were expelled from the county; he was expelled from the clergy, ace. to order 70B/1982, resolution no. 1 of 26.01.1982.

AMET, MUSTAFA; b. 12.02.1901 Mereni, Constanta County; imam. Biog. Served at Mereni; deceased; sentenced for crime of high treason.

ANANIA, VALERIAN V.; mn. BARTOLOMEU; b. 18.03.1921. com. Glavile, Arges County; Orthodox archbishop. Served as hierodeacon at the Polovragi Monastery (01.12.1942-01.04.1947), at the Cluj Bishopric (01.04.-26.07.1947); superior at the Toplita Monastery (26.07.-09.12.1947), intendant at the Archbishopric of Bucharest (09.10.1948-01.02.1949), inspector of the Patriarchate (01.02.1949-05.10.1950), assistant professor at the Theological Institute in Bucharest (05.10.1950-01.04.1952), head of department at the Archbishopric of Bucharest (01.04.-01.06.1952), inspector of the Patriarchate (01.06.1950-01.01.1954); chief librarian at the Patriarchate Administration (01.01.1054-03.06.1958); held in custody between 13.06.1958 and 01.08.1964; tried and sentenced by the Ploiesti Military Court to 25 years of forced labour; reason: sedition; granted a pardon under decree no. 411/24.07.1964; released from Aiud with release.order no.5948/1964; he returned to his position as librarian (1964-1965) and then he served as director of the Romanian Ortliodox Bishopric in America and Canada (29.10.1965-20.10.1976) and as director of the Publisliing House of the Biblical Institute (20.10.1976-01.09.1982); retired in 1982; since 1993 Archbishop of Cluj. In 1957 he was an inmate at Aiud, while between 1962 and 1964 he was subjected to solitary confinement at Zarca Aiudului; leader of the student strike of Cluj in 1946.

ANASTASE, GHEORGHE IANCU; Orthodox priest. Served at Rucar, Arges County; died in 1950 while under house arrest. Nc. He died in 1952.

ANCA, [...]; Greek-Catholic priest. Served in Bihor County; in 1945 he was detained in the camp at Caracal. Nc. Priest in Cluj, arrested in 1948 for having protested the dissolving of the Greek-Catholic church; he is the vicar of a church in Cluj; in 1952 he was imprisoned at Aiud.

ANCA, BAZIL VASILE; b. 17.12.1910 com. Solovastru, Mures County; d. 05.05.1990; Orthodox priest. Served at Suseni, Mures County; arrested on 30.11.1960; places of detention: Targu Mures, Periprava, Luciu-Giurgeni; released in 1964; deceased.

ANCA, DUMITRU; Orthodox priest. In 1953 he was detained at Baia Sprie, in the lead mines.

ANCA, ILIE M.; b. 01.03.1922 com. Ulmeni-Alexandria, Teleorman County; Orthodox priest. Served at the Belitori II parish, Teleorman County, and at the Traianu parish; sentenced by the Bucharest Military Court, under Sentence no. 128/1952, to 5 years of hard prison; reason: sedition; he did time between 11.01.1952 and 09.11.1955; places of detention: Rahova, Jilava, Baia Sprie, Aiud; granted a pardon under decree no. 421/1955; released from Aiud, with release order no. 17926/1955; reinstated at the Salcioara parish, Lehliu deanery; between 16.02.1959 and 09.06.1959 he was held in custody by the political police, for investigation, without a trial or a conviction, without any evidence; currently a priest at the Herastrau church in Bucharest.

ANCA, PETRU; b. 24.06.1917; Orthodox priest. Born at Oradea; detained twice: between 01.07.1945 and 03.09.1945 for investigation; second, sentenced to 20 years of forced labour (30.05.1948 -24.07.1964); reason: crime of sedition; pardoned under decree 411/1964; retired on 01.01.1991 from the parish of Cihei, Oradea. Nc. Sentenced to 10 years.

ANDERCAU, VASILE; Greek-Catholic priest. Served in Satu Mare; the political police arrested him in 1952; sentenced on 06.07.1953; reason: religion; places of detention: Oradea, Pitesti and Dej; in 1955 he was imprisoned at Pitesti for "high treason"; after his release he was held under house arrest at Valea Calmatui.

ANDREESCU, [...]; Orthodox priest. Biog. Imprisoned at Poarta Alba.

ANDREESCU, NICOLAE ST.; b. 08.09.1904 Oltenita; Orthodox priest. Served the St. Nicolae parish in Oltenita; detained for administrative reasons over 16.08.1952-27.04.1953; reason: social misdemeanour; released from the Constanta penitentiary by order no. 1506/1953; he returned to his parish.

ANDREESCU, NICOLAE; b. Poienarei, Muscel County; Orthodox priest. Served the Nucsoara parish, Curtea de Arges deanery, after the first arrest of priest Dragoi, beginning 1949; from 1952 he sent supplies to the organization Haiducii Muscelului, based in the Fagaras Mountains and led by the Arnautoiu brothers; arrested in 1958, when the Arnautoiu brothers fell; reason: sedition; sentenced to death together with the whole group and executed on 18.07.1959; under Sentence no. 107/19.05.1959; the execution took place at Jilava; according to certain versions (1960 and 1989) he was sent, together with priest Constantinescu and priest Dragoi, to Siberia, although initially it was thought they had been executed. He was the main moral and material support to the refugees in the mountains; He was executed between 9 p.m. and midnight at the Jilava Penitentiary. Nc. Sentenced to 8 years; year of death: 1958.

ANDREESCU, SPIRIDON I.; b. 19.07.1902 com. Valeni, Dambovita County; Orthodox priest. Served at the Sf. Treime parish in the Ghencea Park of Bucharest; arrested on 17.01.1961; sentenced by the Bucharest Military Court under Sentence no. 41/13.07.1961, to 6 years in prison and confiscation of his wealth; reason: sedition; he did 1 year and 5 months; pardoned on 04.06.1962 under decree no. 393/26.05.1962; released from Jilava, by order no. 3744/1962; he returned to his parish and retired on 01.06.1989. He was the first priest of the Ghencea Park parish, which was created on 01.11.1938. Until the church of this parish was built, to which he saw personally, he set up a chapel at his home, where he officiated for the believers.

ANDREI, IOAN; Orthodox priest. Born in Dobrogea; arrested in 1959, imprisoned at Aiud and Salcia. According to certain people, simulating re-education, at the Canal he behaved badly to his colleagues who had not forgotten their ecclesiastical habits.

ANDREICA, VASILE; Orthodox priest. Ministered in com. Viseul de Sus, Maramures County; suspended form his position with his salary withheld until the Diocesan Consistory issued a sentence; reason: failure to obey the authority and refusal to execute an order, according to Sentence no. 56135 of 01.11.1947; he died in detention.

ANDRICU, [...]; pseud. Preotul ROSU (the Red priest); Orthodox priest. Biog. In 1962 he was an inmate at Gherla.

ANDRONESCU, GHEORGHE; b. Poienari, Arges County; Orthodox priest. Biog. Served at Nucsoara, Arges County; imprisoned for political reasons.

ANDRONESCU, TOMA; Orthodox priest. Served the Colacu parish, Vrancea County; arrested on 16.01.1958.

ANDRONIC, CEZAR GH.; b. 20.07.1902 com. Calugareni, Neamt County; Orthodox priest; stavroforos treasurer. Appointed priest on 15.09.1925 at the Galu parish, Neamt County; on 01.04.1937 he moved to the Vanatori parish and on 01.10.1946 to the St. Gheorghe parish in Piatra Neamt; arrested on 15.05.1948; sentenced by the Iasi Military Court, under Sentence no. 353/22.03.1949, to 12 years of forced labour and loss of civic rights for 10 years; reason: sedition; after the appeal, the punishment was reduced to 7 years of hard prison and loss of civic rights for 5 years; places of detention: Suceava, Aiud; released from Aiud, with release order no.7/1955; over 13.05.1955-25.04.1956 house arrest in com. Rachitoasa Fetesti, Constanta County; on 01.01.1957 he was reinstated at the parish Valea Viei, Neamt County; retired on 01.01.1975; in 1991 he was still living. Under the penal Sentence no.353/1949 he was accused of being a member and of having helped a subversive organization and of having contributed money to support the imprisoned Legion members. After his release, he denied the charges, admitting to have provided "only one amount of money, in 1946, as support for the people in prison, without having had knowledge of their political allegiance."

ANDRONIC, IOAN; b. 02.09.1914 com. Viforeni, Bacau County; Orthodox priest. Biog. Served at Viforeni, Bacau County; arrested in 1948; reason: sedition; sentenced to 5 years; places of detention: Zalau, Deva, Alba-Iulia; currently living at Filipesti, Bacau County.

ANGELESCU, ANTIM; Orthodox bishop. Served in Buzau; arrested.

ANGELESCU, DIACONU; Orthodox priest. Served at the Sf. Petru parish in Braila; place of detention: Aiud, 1952.

ANGELESCU, NICOLAE; Orthodox priest. Served at the Buna Vestire parish in Bucharest; imprisoned for investigation between 16.08.1952 and 09.08.1953; he was neither tried nor sentenced; upon release, he received no document; he returned to his parish.

ANGHEL, CALIDONIA; Orthodox nun. Lived at the Bistrita Monastery; involved in the Arnota group, she was tried by the Craiova Military Court on 06.12.1949; at the headquarters of the political police in Craiova she was beaten and raped.

ANGHEL, ILIE; b. 11.09.1894 Aricesti, Romanati County; Orthodox priest. Biog. Arrested in 1959; reason: sedition; sentenced to 4 years; deceased.

ANGHEL, NICOLAE; Orthodox priest. Served at Bals, Romanati County; place of detention: Aiud; died in 1962 after his release.

ANGHEL, VARLAAM; Orthodox monk. Lived at the Cheia Monastery, Prahova County; place of detention: the basements of the political police in Brasov.

ANGHEL, VASILE; b. 1900; d. 1972; Orthodox priest. Investigated by the political police of Braila; administrative sentence of 1 year and 2 months; died at his home in Braila.

ANGHELESCU, GHEORGHE I.; b. 01.01.1911 Calafat, Dolj County; Orthodox priest. Served at the Poiana Mare III parish, the Calafet deanery, Dolj County (Archbishopric of Craiova); interned for administrative reasons, under warrant no. 10952/1959, between 21.06.1959 and 15.02.1961; released from Military Unit 0113 with release order no. 255/1961; he returned to his parish, wherefromhe retired on 01.06.1985.

ANGHELESCU, ION; b. 1891; d. 1984; Orthodox teacher deacon. Biog. Administrative sentence of 1 year.

ANGHELESCU, NICOLAE; Orthodox priest. Detained in the communist prisons.

ANTAL, GUSTAV; b.1905 Petrinzel, Salaj County; Calvinist pastor. Served in Reghin; arrested in 1952; reason: sedition by instigating; sentenced to 50 months; places of detention: Ghencea, Vacaresti; at present he lives in Reghin.

ANTAL [?], IOSIF; Orthodox priest; He was detained at the Baia Sprie lead mine.

ANTAL, JAKOB; Roman-Catholic bishop. Served in Alba-Iulia; place of detention: Baia Sprie.

ANTAL, LASZLO; b. 21.05.1934 Sacele, Brasov County; Lutheran pastor. Biog. Served as priest at Tarlungeni, Brasov County; arrested in 1958, sentenced to 16 years; reason: sedition; place of detention: Balta Brailei; deceased.

ANTAL, MIRCEA; Orthodox priest. Served at Breb, Sighet district; sentenced to 1 year in correctional prison by the Cluj Military Court; reason: participation in a subversive organization.

ANTAL, SANDOR; b. 1923; Calvinist pastor. Served at Zalan, Covasna County; arrested in 1958; reason: sedition; sentenced to 10 months; places of detention: Periprava, Salcia; currently living at Sovata.

ANTAL, VALERIU V.; b. 06.09.1909 com. Toplita, Harghita County; Orthodox priest. Served the parish of Toplita.; on 01.04.1940 he was appointed to serve the Bishopric of Covasna and Harghita; first arrested between 04.10.1949 and 20.08.1955; reason: sedition; having been released, he worked at the Toplita Motor Depot, as traffic controller (01.10.1955-31.12.1955) and at the Woodworking Enterprise of Lunca Bradului (15.01-31.10.1956); allowed to return to the parish of Toplita III (01.11.1956-2.10.1959), after which again taken into custody over 03.10.1959 and 01.08.1964; reason: sedition; pardoned under decree no. 411/1964; he was a worker at the Galautas Woodworking Enterprise (28.08.1964-15.10.1965) and then served as priest at the parish of Galautas, Harghita County, until 01.11.1970 when he retired; at present he is at the Bishopric of Covasna and Harghita. Ev. He was the nephew of former Patriarch Miron Cristea.

ANTOHI, ILARION; Orthodox hieromonach; Served at the Sihastria Monastery; the political police rounded him up from the monastery on 15.05.1948; reason: he spoke out against the regime and he possessed books with a subversive content, which he had failed to destroy in due time.

ANTONEANU, GHERASIE; Orthodox priest. Served in com. Giugiova, Dolj County; detained over 1958-1964; he died after his release from prison.

ANTONESCU, CONSTANTIN; Orthodox priest. Served at the Flamanzeni parish in the deanery of Racari (Bucharest Archbishopric); political detainee for one year (16.08.1952-11.08.1953) on the basis of an administrative document, without a trial and sentencing; upon release, he received no document; he returned to his parish.

APOSTOL, ION; Orthodox theologian. Born at Orastie; studied theology at the Veniamin Costache Seminary in Iasi; taught theology; wrote poetry; places of detention: over 1949-1950 imprisoned at Ocnele Mari; over 1951-1953 at the Canal and then at Capul Midia and at Peninsula; in the summer of 1954 he was transferred to the prison in Pitesti for one year and a half; he took holy orders at the age of 80; deceased.

APOSTOL, MIHAI; Orthodox priest. Arrested after 1960; sentenced in a batch that got punishment ranging between 3 and 14 years of forced labour or correctional prison and loss of civic and moral rights; after the appeal, the punishment dropped to between 2 and 5 years; later, he was separated from that batch and acquitted.

APOSTOL, STEFAN; Orthodox priest. Arrested after 1960, he was sentenced with a batch that got punishments ranging between 3 and 14 years of forced labour or correctional prison plus loss of civic and moral rights; after the appeal, the punishment was reduced to between 2 and 5 years; pardoned in 1964 under Decree no. 411.

APOSTOL, STEFAN; Roman-Catholic priest. Biog. He died at Aiud, in detention.

APOSTU, IOAN; b. 1921 Harlau; Orthodox priest. Served the parish of Deleni, Iasi; arrested in 1958; convicted under Sentence no. 99/1959; reason: sedition; deceased.

ARBORE, IOAN D.; b. 09.03.1889 com. Corlateni, Dorohoi County; d. 1954; Orthodox priest. Served in com. Dimacheni, Dorohoi County; imprisoned between 1947 and 1953; places of detention: Rahova, Jilava, Botosani, Suceava, Gherla, and the Canal; he died at his home in 1954. Arrested four times; dismissed as of 09.02.1948.

ARCADIE, [...]; Orthodox priest. In 1959 he was imprisoned at Gherla.

ARCAN, CATINCA; mn. ECATERINA; b. 09.09.1921 Vadu Rosca, Vrancea County; Orthodox nun. She served at the Tudor Vladimirescu Monastery; apprehended in 1957 and sentenced to 6 months; reason: unauthorized wearing of the habit; places of detention: Galati, Tecuci; currently living at the Vladimiresti Monastery.

ARDELEANU, [...]; Orthodox priest. Served in com. Sugatag; he was vice-president of the Maramures branch of the National Peasant Party; he died at the Canal in 1952.

ARDELEANU, IULIU; Orthodox priest. Served the Iapa parish in Maramures County; arrested on 13.02.1952.

ARDEU, IOAN T.; Orthodox priest. Served in the village of Pricaz, Hunedoara County; sentenced for having drawn up a type-written diary that described what the Soviet troops had done in their passage in the area; imprisoned at Deva, where he was ill-treated until he handed over the diary.

ARGINT, DUMITRU V.; b. 16.06.1907 com. Siscani-Barlad, Falciu County; Orthodox priest. Served at the Vacaresti Church in Bucharest; manager of the Church Book Printing House; arrested on 10.08.1948; reason: multiplication of banned publications; the Bucharest Military Court changed the charges to "accessory to the offence of subversion apt to create a threat to the state security;" under Sentence no.303/8.03.1949 he was sent to prison for 4 years and 6 months; he should have been released on 07.02.1953 but, under resolution no. 512/1953, the Ministry of Internal Affairs prolonged his punishment; he was released on 18.06.1954, under the MIA's order no. 53210/1954, from the Caransebes prison, with pass no. 1929/1954; he returned to the Cutitul de Argint parish in Bucharest; suspended from his office according to the Decision no. 36800/1948 (October) of the Ministry of Cults. He had two children; in 1952 he was an inmate at Aiud.

ARGINTARU, HARALAMBIE N.; Orthodox priest. Served at the parish of Closani, Baia de Arama, Mehedinti County; administrative detainee (05.07.1959-07.04.1960); released from Periprava by order no. 22/59/1960.

ARINEI, REMUS; Orthodox theology student. Biog. He was at Jilava.

ARNAUTU, ION; b. 1905 Doanca, Olt county; Orthodox priest. Served at the Doanca parish; arrested in 1959 for political reasons and sentenced to 3 years; place of detention: Poarta Alba; deceased.

ARNAUTU, MARIN; Orthodox priest. Served in Romanati County; imprisoned over 1958-1964; he died after his release.

[...], ARTENIA; Orthodox nun. Lived at the Varatec Monastery; she was driven away together with all the nuns; place of detention: Miercurea-Ciuc.

ASAFTEI, ANDREI; Roman-Catholic priest. After almost one year of investigation by the political police, in Uranus St. in Bucharest, on 26.10.1953 he was tried for espionage in the service of the Vatican and imprisoned at Jilava alongside other priests; in the winter of 1959-1960 he was in the prison of Pitesti and then at Dej.

ASAVEI, [...]; mn. HRISOSTOM; Orthodox monk. Hieromonach at the Durau Hermitage; arrested in 1949 with the Durau Hermitage group; reason: he was a member of the organization Decebal 's Guards. Nc. Asarei Hrisostom, arrested in 1949 with the group The Burning Bush.

ASTELEANU, VASILE; Greek-Catholic priest, later Orthodox bishop. Places of detention: Jilava; on 25.04.1955 he was taken to the headquarters of the political police in Timisoara.

ATNAGEA, ANTON; b. 1890 Zorlentu Mare, Caras-Severin County; Orthodox priest. Served at Zorlentu Mare; arrested in 1952; reason: sedition; place of detention: Gherla; deceased.

[...], AUGUSTIN; Roman-Catholic monk. Served at the St. Iosif Cathedral in Bucharest; arrested on 23.08.1958 and taken to Uranus, Bucharest, to be investigated; reason: high treason; sentenced to 20 years of forced labour; transferred to Malmaison and then to Jilava; in 1961-1962 he built embankments around Balta Brailei, at Salcia; in 1964 he was transferred to Salcia.

AVRAAM, [...]; Greek-Catholic priest. Served in Cluj; arrested after 1956.

AVRAAM, GHEORGHE; Orthodox priest Biog. Served at the Buzau deanery; imprisoned in 1951 and 1954. Nc. Avram Pauna; Orthodox priest, he served at the Buzau deanery; arrested in 1953 and 1954.

AVRAAM, VICTOR; Greek-Catholic priest. Served at Ardusat, Maramures County; arrested after 1956.

AVRAM, ROMUL; Orthodox priest. Served in Satu Mare, Somcuta district; arrested on 14.02.1952.

AVRAMESCU, MARCEL; Orthodox priest. Ordained for the Biserica Alba in Bucharest; in 1953 he was transferred to the church at the Schitul Maicilor; he was imprisoned at Jilava. Nc. Avramescu Mihai, met by the same author, in January 1958, in Bucharest, specifying about him: "He no longer has a parish".

AXINUTA, VASILE; Orthodox priest. He was detained in the camp at Onesti. Nc. Orthodox believer in Moldavia; arrested in 1952; released in 1954.

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