Mărturisitori în temnițele comuniste: preoți-profesori ai Academei/ Institutului Teologic Ortodox din Cluj
Confessors Imprisoned under Communism: Clergy and Professors of the Theological Academy/Institute in Cluj

Author(s): Dacian But-Căpușan
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Education, Vocational Education, History of Education
Published by: Ideas Forum International Academic and Scientific Association
Keywords: Theological Academy; Cluj; teachers; confessors; communist prisons; biography;
Summary/Abstract: Since 2024 was the centennial year of Orthodox theological education in Cluj, and 2025 was proclaimed by the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church as the Commemorative Year of Romanian Orthodox Spirituals and Confessors of the 20th Century, the study briefly presents biographical aspects of several teachers - some lesser known, confessors in communist prisons. The Orthodox Theological Academy/Institute in Cluj can be considered a martyr institution, being arbitrarily suppressed by the communist regime in 1952, but also because 10 teaching staff experienced the horrors of the concentration camp universe during the period of sad memory: Liviu-Galaction Munteanu, Alexandru Filipașcu, Ioan Bunea, Ilarion-Virgil Felea, Ioan Lupaș, Florea Mureșanu, Vasile Sava, Simion Curea, Pavel Șendrea, Gheorghe Noveanu and two of them were canonized in the centennial year of the Romanian Patriarchate.

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