14<\/p>\n
May 2002 \u2013 Priest and journalist VASILE \u021aEPORDEI passed away. Studies<\/p>\n
at the Theological Seminary (1929) and at the Faculty of Theology in<\/p>\n
Chi\u0219in\u0103u (graduated in 1933). He was Religion professor at various<\/p>\n
secondary schools in Chi\u0219in\u0103u (1935-1940; 1941-1944) and in Bucharest<\/p>\n
(1940-1941; 1944-1948). Ever since a student he collaborated with<\/p>\n
several church publications, turning out to be a rather good journalist<\/p>\n
(Lumin\u0103torul, Misionarul, Studentul, etc.). He was editor in chief of<\/p>\n
the “Raza\u201d newspaper. Priest (1939), iconomos (1942), iconom stavrofor<\/p>\n
(1947). In September 1948 he was arrested, in 1949 judged by a Soviet<\/p>\n
military court, in Constanta city, and sentenced to 25 years of forced<\/p>\n
labour. He spent eight years in prison in several Siberian camps, the<\/p>\n
last one in Vorcuta, beyond the Polar Circle. He speaks of this period<\/p>\n
of his life in the book “Memories from Gulag\u201d (1992, Bucharest). He was<\/p>\n
released in 1956, returned to Romania and was re-admitted to priesthood,<\/p>\n
as parish priest in Islaz, county of Ilfov (1956-1966) and at “M\u0103rcu\u021ba\u201d<\/p>\n
church in Bucharest (since 1966).<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
14 May 2002 \u2013 Priest and journalist VASILE \u021aEPORDEI passed away. Studies at the Theological Seminary (1929) and at the Faculty of Theology in Chi\u0219in\u0103u (graduated in 1933). He was Religion professor at various secondary schools in Chi\u0219in\u0103u (1935-1940; 1941-1944) and in Bucharest (1940-1941; 1944-1948). Ever since a student he collaborated with several church publications,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anniversaries-and-commemorations"],"yoast_head":"\n