Ioan Ploscaru
Deceased Person
1911 – 1998
Who was Ioan Ploscaru?
Ioan Ploscaru was a Romanian bishop of the Greek-Catholic Church. Born into a peasant family in Frata Commune, Cluj County, he was ordained a priest in 1933 and a bishop in November 1948. The latter was performed in secret shortly after the new Communist regime outlawed the church and arrested his predecessor, Ioan Bălan. Himself arrested in August 1949, he spent a number of years in prison, including at Sighet. After the collapse of the regime in 1989 and the church's legalization, he was the first Greek-Catholic bishop to officiate at a mass. This took place in January 1990, with the Romanian Orthodox Banat Metropolitan Nicolae Corneanu quickly agreeing to restore the Greek-Catholic churches in his province to their former owners. He retired in 1996.
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