Gheorghe Calciu-Dumitreasa

Gheorghe calciu - Dumitreasa ( born November 23, 1925 in Mahmudia, Tulcea County, Romania, † November 21, 2006 in Washington, DC, United States of America ) was a Romanian Orthodox priest and dissident.

Life

As a 21- year-old medical student calciu - Dumitreasa leaned in 1946 in his speeches against the communist regime in Romania for the first time and was imprisoned as a result. During his detention, his faith grew through contact with also interned Romanian Orthodox priests. As part of a general amnesty, he was released from prison 16 years later, however, the study of theology, he was forbidden. Then he chose French for four years as his field of study. With the approval of the Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church Justinian Marina, he studied secretly overlooking a priesthood. After the Romanian Securitate became aware of these circumstances, Iustitian Marina appointed him in 1973 as professor of French language and the New Testament at the Orthodox seminary in Bucharest. In the same year he received his ordination as a priest.

For the next five years, the government tolerated under Nicolae Ceauşescu his anti-communist sermons about the relationship between Marxism and Christianity in the Radu Voda Church in Bucharest, which he put up in 1978 especially younger listeners. After Justinian's death in 1977 and the appointment of the new Church Patriarch Justin Moisescu calciu - Dumitreasa was expelled from the church and arrested again. In prison, he was abused. Among other things, under pressure from the then U.S. President Ronald Reagan in 1985 he was released from prison. After two years of house arrest, he had to leave Romania and went to live in the State of Virginia in exile. Mid-1980s, he preached on the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe.

The Romanian Orthodox Church had calciu - Dumitreasa his church removed from office, but he was able to exercise the priestly ministry in the parish of Alexandria within the Orthodox Church of America. After the Romanian Revolution, he returned in 1990 to return to Romania to celebrate on University Square in Bucharest a fair. Up to the end he remained some Romanian Orthodox Bishops in Romania set against critical, accusing them that they had infiltrated the Romanian Orthodox Church in the service of the Securitate.

Gheorghe calciu - Dumitreasa was buried in Petru Voda Monastery in Poiana Teiului in Romania Neamt County.

Publications

  • Sapte cuvinte catre Tineri, Anastasia Edition, Bucharest, 1996
  • Christ is calling you. A course in catacomb pastorship, St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood, Platina / California, 1997, in Romanian
  • Rugăciune şi Lumina Mistica. Eseuri şi MEDITATII religioase, Edition Dacia, Cluj - Napoca, 1998, in Romanian
  • Războiul INTRU cuvânt. Cuvintele catre Tineri şi old mărturii, NEMIRA Edition, Bucharest, 2001, in Romanian
  • Homo americanus. O radiography Ortodoxa, Christiana Edition, Bucharest, 2002, in Romanian
  • Testamentul Părintelui calciu. Ultimele sale cuvinte, cu un portret biografic şi Sapte evocări, Christiana Edition, Bucharest, 2007 in Romanian
  • Suferinţa ca binecuvântare, Cathisma Edition, Bucharest, 2007 in Romanian
  • Mărturisitorul prigonit. Predici, eseuri şi MEDITATII religioase, Edition Crigarux, Piatra Neamt, 2007 in Romanian
  • Viata Părintelui Gheorghe calciu, Dupa mărturiile sale şi ale Altora, Christiana Edition, Bucharest, 2007 in Romanian
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