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    STUDIA THEOLOGIA CATHOLICA - Issue no. 1 / 2008  
         
  Article:   AUXILIARY BISHOP IOAN SUCIU, MARTYR OF THE ROMANIAN CHURCH UNITED WITH ROME.

Authors:  VASILE T. CIUBĂNCAN. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  The bishop Ioan Suciu Ph.D., martyr of the Greek-Catholic Church. The author describes significant and exceptional biographical data from the bishop Ioan Suciu Ph.D., who became a martyr of the Greek-Catholic Church. From his early youth, he was an exceptional result of the metropolitan schools of Blaj, that he graduated with magna cum laude. Being sent to pursue his studies in Vatican, he defined himself as an exceptional personality, in the university studies at Propaganda Fide College graduating the doctoral studies in theology, he received the ring of the university, put on his finger by the rector of the University himself, as a sign of appreciation, which is very rare. At the end of the university studies with the high grade suma cum laude when the Holy Father Pius XI congratulated his mother for „the child she gave birth”. He was ordained priest on November 29, 1931, in Rome. In the year 1932 he returned to Blaj, with the title of doctor in philosophy and theology, being named professor at the schools of Blaj. In 1940, on July 20, he was ordained auxiliary bishop at the Greek Catholic bishopric of Oradea. After his investiture he had his address, memorable by his commitment declared to the church and faith, and the apostolate till sacrifice, declaring that: „I do not expect from the Bishopric in these times of refuge other than the cross and the spine crown, adversities and burdens, however I will endure them with the same kindness and boundless patience as the Master and Great Bishop, Jesus Christ”. This was his supreme credo, guiding his entire life until he passed away. The author continues describing his misfortune, since after one month and ten days he and his Bishopric and its almost 190.000 Greek-Catholic believers became victims of the imperialist German-Italian dictate of Hitler and Mussolini, and later on to Hungarian occupation on most part of the Bishopric.  
         
     
         
         
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