Vasile Aftenie
Vasile Aftenie | |
|---|---|
| Auxiliary Bishop of Făgăraș and Alba Iulia | |
| Church | Romanian Greek Catholic Church |
| Appointed | 12 April 1940 |
| Term ended | 10 May 1950 |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 1 January 1926
(Priest) by Vasile Suciu |
| Consecration | 5 June 1940
(Bishop) by Alexandru Nicolescu |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 14 June 1899 Lodroman, Kis-Küküllő County, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | 10 May 1950 (aged 50) Văcărești Prison, Bucharest, Romanian People's Republic |
| Sainthood | |
| Feast day | 10 May |
| Beatified | 2 June 2019 Liberty Field, Blaj, Romania by Pope Francis |
Vasile Aftenie (14 June 1899 – 10 May 1950) was a Romanian Auxiliary bishop of the Greek-Catholic Church, titular Bishop of Ulpiana, martyr of the faith and Servant of God of the Catholic Church.
He was beaten until his death in the communist regime's jails for refusing to abandon his Greek-Catholic faith and the United Romanian Church. Pope Francis personally presided over his beatification on 2 June 2019.