Alexander Chira
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Bishop Alexander Chira was a bishop of the Ruthenian Catholic Church. His immediate predecessor was Bishop Theodore G. Romzha. He is designated as a Confessor of the Faith.
Personal information
Chira was born January 17, 1897, in the village of Irhóc, Máramaros County (Vilhivci/Vilʹkhivtsi/Olkhovtsy).{{cite web|title=Bishop Alexander Chira|url=http://www.carpatho-rusyn.org/spirit/chira.htm|publisher=Byzantine Seminary Press|accessdate=21 March 2011 }} His death was in exile on May 26, 1983, in the city of Karaganda, Kazakhstan.{{Cite web|url=https://library.ndsu.edu/grhc/articles/magazines/german/newbishops.html|title=Germans from Russia Heritage Collection|website=library.ndsu.edu|access-date=2018-09-25}}
Chira "was one of the many victims of the Soviet persecution of the Greek Catholic Church." While in a concentration camp in 1956, Chira clandestinely was appointed a bishop.{{cite web|title=History of the Catholic Church in Kazakhstan|url=http://www.catholic-kazakhstan.org/hist/hist.html|accessdate=21 March 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110609171338/http://www.catholic-kazakhstan.org/hist/hist.html|archive-date=9 June 2011|url-status=dead}}
See also
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- anti-Catholicism
- History of the Catholic Church
- Persecution of Christians
- Roman Catholicism in Romania
- Roman Catholicism in Ukraine
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