List of secret bishops of the Romanian Greek Catholic Church

After the Constitution of the People's Republic of Romania came into force on April 13, 1948 and the break with Rome , until the fall of the last dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu on December 22, 1989, the following persons were ordained bishops (secret bishops) of the Romanian Greek Catholic Church :

Surname	Born	function	consecration	Consecrator	Died
Ioan Ploscaru	November 19, 1911	Auxiliary Bishop in Lugoj and Titular Bishop of Trapezopoli	November 30, 1948	Gerald Patrick O'Hara , Official of the Apostolic Nunciature in Romania	July 31, 1998
Ioan Dragomir	October 11, 1905	Auxiliary Bishop in Maramureș and Titular Bishop of Palaeopolis in Pamphylia	March 6, 1949	Gerald Patrick O'Hara, Official of the Apostolic Nunciature in Romania	April 25, 1985
Titu Liviu Chinezu	December 22, 1904	Auxiliary Bishop in Făgăraş and Alba Iulia and Titular Bishop of Regiana	April 30, 1949	Valeriu Traian Frențiu , Bishop of Oradea Mare (Oradea)	January 15, 1955
Iuliu Hirțea	April 13, 1914	Auxiliary Bishop of Oradea Mare (Oradea) and Titular Bishop of Nebbio	July 28, 1949	Gerald Patrick O'Hara, Official of the Apostolic Nunciature in Romania	June 28, 1978
Ioan Cherteș	September 10, 1911	Auxiliary Bishop in Cluj-Gherla and Titular Bishop of Cantanus	December 25, 1949	Gerald Patrick O'Hara, Official of the Apostolic Nunciature in Romania	January 31, 1992
Octavian Cristian	1920	Bishop of Maramureş not recognized by Rome	November 30, 1948	Ioan Dragomir , auxiliary bishop in Maramureș	January 12, 1983
Alexandru Todea	June 5, 1912	Titular Bishop of Caesaropolis	November 19, 1950	Joseph Schubert , Apostolic Administrator of Bucharest, Titular Bishop of Ceramussa	May 22, 2002
Justin Stefan Paven	1925	Coadjutor Bishop of Octavian Cristian Bishop of Maramureş not recognized by Rome	July 10, 1984	Ioan Dragomir, auxiliary bishop in Maramureș	November 19, 1999
Emil Riti }}	1926	not recognized by Rome	April 18, 1985	Ioan Dragomir, auxiliary bishop in Maramureș	January 21, 2006

Individual evidence

↑ And what about it ?: {{Quote | Text = Romania: The last "secret bishop" of the Greek Catholic Church in Romania, Emil Riti, died at the age of 80. Riti was secretly ordained a bishop in 1985 by Bishop Joan Maria Dragomir . It was the last secret episcopal ordination before the end of the Ceausescu dictatorship. Ritis ordination - valid under canon law - was not officially recognized. Therefore, Riti was not allowed to exercise episcopal functions. After the Communists came to power in 1948, the persecution of the Church in Romania began. The United Church according to the Byzantine rite had been banned and forcibly integrated into the Orthodox Church. (kap) | Author = Vatican Radio March 28, 2006 (accessed on March 23, 2013 Romania: The last "secret bishop" of the Greek Catholic Church in Romania, Emil Riti, died at the age of 80. Riti became a bishop in 1985 Ioan Dragomir ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

[1] And what about it ?: {{Quote | Text = Romania: The last "secret bishop" of the Greek Catholic Church in Romania, Emil Riti, died at the age of 80. Riti was secretly ordained a bishop in 1985 by Bishop Joan Maria Dragomir . It was the last secret episcopal ordination before the end of the Ceausescu dictatorship. Ritis ordination - valid under canon law - was not officially recognized. Therefore, Riti was not allowed to exercise episcopal functions. After the Communists came to power in 1948, the persecution of the Church in Romania began. The United Church according to the Byzantine rite had been banned and forcibly integrated into the Orthodox Church. (kap) | Author = Vatican Radio March 28, 2006 (accessed on March 23, 2013 Romania: The last "secret bishop" of the Greek Catholic Church in Romania, Emil Riti, died at the age of 80. Riti became a bishop in 1985 Ioan Dragomir ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )