Tit Liviu Chinezu Explained

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.

Notes and References

  1. http://www.bru.ro/blaj/lista-episcopilor/ps-tit-liviu-chinezu/ Episcopul Tit Liviu Chinezu
  2. Episcopul Tit Liviu Chinezu at the Romanian Church United with Rome, Greek-Catholic site; accessed 25 April 2012