Type: | Bishop |
Honorific Prefix: | Blessed |
Tit Liviu Chinezu | |
Auxiliary Bishop of Făgăraș and Alba Iulia | |
Church: | Romanian Greek Catholic Church |
Archdiocese: | Făgăraș și Alba Iulia |
See: | Făgăraș și Alba Iulia |
Appointed: | November 1949 |
Term End: | 15 January 1955 |
Predecessor: | Vasile Aftenie |
Successor: | Virgil Bercea |
Other Post: | Titular Bishop of Regiana (1949–55) |
Ordination: | 31 January 1930 |
Consecration: | 3 December 1949 |
Consecrated By: | Valeriu Traian Frențiu |
Birth Name: | Tit Liviu Chinezu |
Birth Date: | 22 June 1904 |
Birth Place: | Huduc, Mureș County, Romania |
Death Place: | Sighet Prison, Sighetu Marmației, Maramureș County, Romania |
Alma Mater: | Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas |
Feast Day: | 2 June |
Attributes: | Episcopal attire |
Beatified Date: | 2 June 2019 |
Beatified Place: | Câmpia Libertății, Blaj, Romania |
Tit Liviu Chinezu (22 June 1904 – 15 January 1955) was a Romanian bishop of the 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 Communist regime that outlawed the church, he was secretly ordained bishop in December 1949 by other detained bishops. Never tried or sentenced, he was eventually sent to Sighet Prison. He died there of hypothermia.[2]
Pope Francis beatified him and six other Romanian bishop martyrs on 2 June 2019 in Blaj.