Ioan Suciu

Ioan Suciu (December 4, 1907—June 27, 1953) was a Romanian bishop of the Greek-Catholic Church.

Born into a clerical family in Blaj.

He studied in Rome, Italy first at Sant'Atanasio and then at the Pontificium Institutum Internationale Angelicum, the future Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum where after six years of study he received a Doctorate in Sacred Theology on 29 November 1931, and was ordained to the priesthood.^[1]

He was consecrated Auxiliary Bishop of Oradea in 1940.

Arrested in 1948 by the authorities of the new Communist regime that outlawed the church, he was eventually sent to Sighet prison. He died there of illness.^[2]

Notes

1. http://www.bru.ro/blaj/lista-episcopilor/ps-ioan-suciu/ Accessed 15 August 2013; http://www.bru.ro/blaj/lista-episcopilor/ps-ioan-suciu/ Accessed 15 August 2013; http://www.byzcath.org/stmarysbyzantine/history.htm Accessed 14, 2013; Apostolic Letter for the Third Centenary of Union of the Greek-Catholic Church of Romania with the Church of Rome, Pope John Paul II, 2 August 2000, http://www.ewtn.com/library/papaldoc/jp2grkct.htm Accessed 15, 2013
2. (Romanian) Episcopul Ioan Suciu at the Romanian Church United with Rome, Greek-Catholic site; accessed April 25, 2012