Ioan Ploscaru
Ioan Ploscaru ( born November 19, 1911 in Frata, county of Cluj, Austria - Hungary, † July 31, 1998 in Lugoj, Romania) was the Romanian Greek- Catholic bishop of Lugoj ( German: Lugosch; Hungarian: Lugo ).
Life
From a farming family, he went to primary school home port and then high school in Blaj. After graduation in 1929 he entered the seminary in Blaj and was on 17 September 1933 by Bishop Valeriu Traian Frentiu, the Bishop of Oradea ( Oradea ), replacing the ailing Archbishop Vasile Suciu, ordained of celibacy.
To further his studies, he traveled to Strasbourg (Alsace ). In 1938 he was incardinated at the request of Archbishop Alexandru Nicolescu in the clergy of the Diocese of Lugoj. In preparation for his dissertation, he again went to Strasbourg. With the outbreak of World War II left the theology students Strasbourg and went to Paris. With the last train he came to Italy and Yugoslavia on 9 June 1940 in Lugoj to; on this day surrendered Paris before the German occupation. Bishop Ioan Bălan appointed him his secretary. In 1942 he became canon in Lugoj and 1945 Vicar General.
After the arrest or under house arrest - position of the Romanian Greek-Catholic bishops end of October 1948 he was appointed by Pope Pius XII. Auxiliary Bishop and at the same titular bishop of Trapezopolis. He was consecrated on November 30, 1948 in the chapel of the Nunciature in Bucharest by the Official at the Apostolic Nunciature Bishop Gerald Patrick Aloysius O'Hara. Mitkonsekrator was Theodor Alexandru Cisar the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Bucharest. The dedication ceremony also took part in the action Attaché and secretary of the Nunciature Guido del Mestri, in 1950 and was expelled 1975-1984 Apostolic Nuncio in Germany.
On August 28, 1949 he was arrested and was to 8 December 1949 in police custody. Arrested on October 27, 1950 and re- spent in the notorious prison Sighet. Released in 1955, he was arrested in a new wave of arrests on August 15, 1956 again in 1957 and sentenced to 45 years in prison. The atrocities and torture he describes in detail in his biography. 1964 amnesty, he worked largely out of the ground.
After the end of the Ceauşescu dictatorship, he was appointed by Pope John Paul II appointed Bishop of Lugoj on 14 March 1990. On November 20, 1995, he made the resignation, which was accepted by the Pope. On 29 November 1996 John Paul II appointed Bishop Emeritus Archbishop Ioan Ploscaru per hac vice.
He died on 31 July 1998 and was buried in the crypt of the Cathedral of Lugoj.