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Place of Birth: MaramureČ™ County, Romania
About Ioan Dragomir
- Ioan Dragomir (October 11, 1905—April 25, 1985) was a Romanian bishop of the Greek-Catholic Church.
- Born into a peasant family in Arini?, Maramures County, he attended high school in Zalau and Baia Mare.
- He then studied theology in Gherla, remaining there several years as a teacher.
- After his ordination, he was a parish priest from 1932 to 1934 in Costiui, Hoteni and Ocna Sugatag.
- He left to study theology at Strasbourg but returned early due to ill health.
- After recovering, he finished his studies in Rome, becoming a doctor of theology.
- He was named archpriest of Satu Mare and also canon at the Baia Mare cathedral.
- Despite experiencing persecution, he led an active religious life during the period when Northern Transylvania was ceded to Hungary.
- Following the area's return to Romania, he helped reopen Romanian schools and set up curricula.In 1948, the new Communist regime outlawed his church and he spent time hidden in a barn attic in his native village.
- One night, dressed as a peasant, he went to the Ulmeni station and boarded a train for Bucharest, paying a villager who recognized him to keep quiet.
- He lived hidden at the nunciature and in 1950 was consecrated bishop by Gerald Patrick O'Hara.
- Shortly thereafter he left, since relations with the Vatican were severed, and Dragomir was arrested, sentenced to prison and subjected to various repressive measures.
- Released in 1964, he returned to Arinis, where he had been presumed dead, and resumed his duties.
- Near the end of his life, gravely ill and influenced by others, he consecrated three bishops on his own, without discussion with other bishops or Vatican approval.
- He died in Bucharest and was buried alongside his parents in Arinis.
- The funeral took place during a period of comparatively relaxed persecution, and was attended by bishops Alexandru Todea, Ioan Chertes and Ioan Ploscaru.
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