Ioan Ploscaru

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Ioan Ploscaru (19 November 1911—31 July 1998) 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.^[1]

Notes

↑ (Romanian) Arhiepiscopul Ioan Ploscaru at the Romanian Church United with Rome, Greek-Catholic site; accessed April 25, 2012

v t e Anti-Communist Metropolitans and Bishops in Romania

Greek Catholic	Vasile Aftenie Ioan Bălan Tit Liviu Chinezu Ioan Dragomir Valeriu Traian Frențiu Iuliu Hirţea Iuliu Hossu Ioan Ploscaru Alexandru Rusu Ioan Suciu Alexandru Todea

Roman Catholic	Szilárd Bogdánffy Adalbert Boros Alexandru Cisar Ioan Duma Anton Durcovici Imre Erőss Markus Glaser Áron Márton Augustin Pacha János Scheffler Joseph Schubert

Orthodox	Grigorie Leu Nicodim Munteanu Visarion Puiu

Persondata
Name	Ploscaru, Ioan
Alternative names
Short description	Romanian bishop
Date of birth	1911
Place of birth
Date of death	1998
Place of death

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