Tit Liviu Chinezu

Titu Liviu Chinezu ( born December 22, 1904 in Huduc circle Mures, Transylvania, † January 15, 1955 in Sighet (Romania ) ) was the Romanian Greek- Catholic Auxiliary Bishop of Fagaras and Alba Iulia.

Life

The son of a Catholic priest visited the primary school of the home location and then high school in Reghin, and Blaj. His classmate was Ioan Suciu it was the beginning of a lifelong friendship. They made together high school and decided to become a priest. 1925 were both sent to study theology at the Pontifical Greek College of St. Athanasius connection with studies at the Pontifical Urban University. He earned his doctorate in philosophy; January 31, 1930 he was ordained a priest in Rome. Back in Blaj he became a professor and later Prefect and Rector of the Academy. In 1947 he became dean in Bucharest. On October 28, 1948 he was arrested and interned in the camp Dragoslavele, in February 1949, he got together with the also arrested diocesan bishops of the Romanian Greek-Catholic Church, solitary confinement in Caldarusani monastery.

On 3 December 1949 he was ordained a bishop. Pope Pius XII. had previously appointed him Auxiliary Bishop of Fagaras and Alba Iulia and at the same titular bishop of Regiana. He was consecrated by Valeriu Traian Frentiu, the Bishop of Oradea Mare ( Oradea ), co-consecrators were Iuliu Hossu, Bishop of Cluj- Gherla, Ioan Bălan, Bishop of Lugoj and his friend Ioan Suciu, the Apostolic Administrator of Fagaras and Alba Iulia.

Despite the utmost secrecy the act of consecration was betrayed and the bishops were spent in the notorious prison Sighet. There diseased Bishop Titu Liviu Chinezu; beginning of January 1955, the terminally ill was kept half-naked in cells open window, after five days of agony he died, highly subcooled, on 15 January 1955. He was still buried in the night without a coffin in a mass grave in the paupers' cemetery.