Tit Liviu Chinezu

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Roman Catholic Church
Beatified2 June 2019
Câmpia Libertății, Blaj, Romania
by Pope Francis
AttributesEpiscopal attire

Tit Liviu Chinezu (22 June 1904 – 15 January 1955) was a

Greek-Catholic Church
.

Born to a priest in Huduc village, Mureș County, he went to Rome in 1925, studying first at Sant'Atanasio college and becoming a Doctor of Sacred Theology at the Pontificium Institutum Internationale Angelicum, the future Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum in 1930. He was ordained to the priesthood on 31 January 1930.[1]

Arrested in October 1948 by the authorities of the new

Sighet prison. He died there of hypothermia.[2]

Pope Francis beatified him and six other Romanian bishop martyrs on 2 June 2019 in Blaj.

References

  1. ^ Episcopul Tit Liviu Chinezu. bru.ro
  2. ^ (in Romanian) Episcopul Tit Liviu Chinezu at the Romanian Church United with Rome, Greek-Catholic site; accessed 25 April 2012