Supraviețuire clandestină Biserica Unită în anii ’50
An Undergroud Survival: the Romanian Greek Catholic Church in the 1950's

Summary/Abstract: After December 1, 1948 the Romanian Greek Catholic Church was banned and in the 1950’s many of its clergy were injailed under the pretext of political offences or even “spying activity”, but their only “fault” was the fidelity for the old confession. The Communist authorities tried to break the Greek Catholic faithful’s resistance even through the agency of absurd measures: the removal of the Romanian language from the Transylvanian Catholic Latin-rite churches. This paper emphasizes the activity of Ioan Ploscaru and Ioan Chertes, two of the bishops ordained in secret who contributed together with the underground clergy to the survival of the forbidden Church.

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