15<\/p>\n
May 1879 \u2013 MOISE BALEA, missionary priest in the United States was born<\/p>\n
in C\u0103rpini\u0219, county of Alba. Secondary school studies, then at the<\/p>\n
Theological Institute of Sibiu (1902 \u2013 1905). Ordained in Sibiu, on 18<\/p>\n
October 1905 and sent by the Archdiocese of Sibiu as missionary priest<\/p>\n
in the U.S.A., first to Cleveland-Ohio parish. He set up 15 Romanian<\/p>\n
Orthodox parishes in Youngstown, Indiana Harbour, Phuladeplphia, St.<\/p>\n
Paul, Sharon, Canton, Warren, Alliance, Akron, Ellwood City etc., some<\/p>\n
of them with their own churches, as well as the “America\u201d newspaper<\/p>\n
(1906), in Cleveland, with uninterrupted publication till today. After<\/p>\n
1929, he worked at a locomotive factory in Philadelphia, PA, and after<\/p>\n
1938 at Ford Company in Detroit. He died in 1961, and was buried at<\/p>\n
“Vatra Rom\u00e2neasc\u0103\u201d cemetery, having been considered a true “founder\u201d of<\/p>\n
the first Romanian Orthodox parishes in the American continent. He<\/p>\n
passed away in 1961, in the USA.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
15 May 1879 \u2013 MOISE BALEA, missionary priest in the United States was born in C\u0103rpini\u0219, county of Alba. Secondary school studies, then at the Theological Institute of Sibiu (1902 \u2013 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…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anniversaries-and-commemorations"],"yoast_head":"\n