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March 1955 – hierarch VENIAMIN POCITAN passed away at Cernica
Monastery (born 5 December 1870, in Ciumași, county of Bacau). Studies
at the Inferior Seminary of Roman (1884 – 1888), at “Nifon” Seminary
(1890 – 1993), then at the Faculty of Theology of Bucharest (1893 –
1897), where he graduates (1897), and later on gets his doctor’s degree
(1926); in parallel he attended the Law Faculty (1898). Priest at
“Saints Voievodes” church of Bucharest (1897 – 1928), transferred as
superior of the Romanian Orthodox chapel in Paris (1914 – 1915), deputy
chief of the Religious Service of the Great General Headquarters of the
Romanian Army (1916 – 1922); in parallel Religion professor at “Matei
Basarab” Secondary School, at the University Pedagogical Seminary of
“Titu Maiorescu” of Bucharest; the first president of the Central
Spiritual Consistory (1926). In 1929, the Holy Synod elected him
assistant bishop to the Diocese of Huși, with the title of “Bârladeanul”
(tonsured into monasticism at Neamț, with the name Veniamin, ordained
on 23 June 1919), locum tenens Bishop of Huși (1932- 1934), assistant
bishop to the Archdiocese of Bucharest, with the title of “Ploieșteanul”
(1935 – 1948).
Works. He wrote studies on some dissolved eparchies,
on certain ecclesiastic personalities of the 19th century, as well as
the first studies on the Romanian Orthodox communities in “Diaspora”; a)
Catechetic Schools in the Eparchy of Huși (1930); the Eparchy of
Strehaia (1930) etc.
