By The Associated Press (CP)
Cluj, Romania, January 31, 2011
The
[Romanian Orthodox] Church says a senior Orthodox
bishop who was imprisoned by the Communists and
decades later narrowly missed out on being elected
the leader of the Romanian Orthodox Church has died.
He was 89.
Archbishop Bartolomeu Valeriu Anania of Vad, Feleac and
Cluj has died late Monday from heart failure.
Anania was sentenced for political reasons in the 1950s
and released in 1964. The Romanian Orthodox Church, to
which more than 80 per cent of Romanians belong, later
sent him to the United States for 12 years. In 2007, he
was a candidate for patriarch, or church leader, but lost
to current patriarch Daniel.
Anania publicly opposed to homosexuality, drugs and
genetic engineering. He also spoke out against corruption.
He will be buried Thursday in a cathedral in Cluj.
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