A community-edited reference article on Vasile Aftenie, auxiliary Greek Catholic bishop of Ulpiana, arrested days after his church was outlawed in 1948, tortured under the Securitate and held at Vacaresti Prison until his death in 1950; one of seven Romanian Greek Catholic bishops who died under communist detention and were beatified together by Pope Francis in 2019.
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Reliability TierCommunity-edited reference page, tier 3. Used for its account of one named bishop's fate, which the article draws from the Vatican's own 2019 beatification record and published Romanian church histories. Citation
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasile_Aftenie 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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