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May 1879 – MOISE BALEA, missionary priest in the United States was born
in Cărpiniș, county of Alba. Secondary school studies, then at the
Theological Institute of Sibiu (1902 – 1905). Ordained in Sibiu, on 18
October 1905 and sent by the Archdiocese of Sibiu as missionary priest
in the U.S.A., first to Cleveland-Ohio parish. He set up 15 Romanian
Orthodox parishes in Youngstown, Indiana Harbour, Phuladeplphia, St.
Paul, Sharon, Canton, Warren, Alliance, Akron, Ellwood City etc., some
of them with their own churches, as well as the “America” newspaper
(1906), in Cleveland, with uninterrupted publication till today. After
1929, he worked at a locomotive factory in Philadelphia, PA, and after
1938 at Ford Company in Detroit. He died in 1961, and was buried at
“Vatra Românească” cemetery, having been considered a true “founder” of
the first Romanian Orthodox parishes in the American continent. He
passed away in 1961, in the USA.
