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Visarion Puiu (Romanian pronunciation: [visariˈon ˈpuju]; sometimes Bessarion in French; born Victor Puiu on 27 February 1879 in Pașcani, Romania – 10 August 1964 in Paris or Viels-Maisons, France) was a metropolitan bishop of the Romanian Orthodox Church. During World War II, at a time when Romania was an ally of Nazi Germany, he served as the leading Eastern Orthodox clergyman in occupied Transnistria, a territory where several hundred thousand Jews were murdered. In August 1944, when Romania switched sides, he took refuge in Nazi Germany.

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  • Visarion Puiu (Romanian pronunciation: [visariˈon ˈpuju]; sometimes Bessarion in French; born Victor Puiu on 27 February 1879 in Pașcani, Romania – 10 August 1964 in Paris or Viels-Maisons, France) was a metropolitan bishop of the Romanian Orthodox Church. During World War II, at a time when Romania was an ally of Nazi Germany, he served as the leading Eastern Orthodox clergyman in occupied Transnistria, a territory where several hundred thousand Jews were murdered. In August 1944, when Romania switched sides, he took refuge in Nazi Germany. After the war, he lived in Italy and Switzerland before finally settling in France. In 1946, he was sentenced to death in absentia by the Bucharest People's Tribunal. He created the Romanian Orthodox Diocese of Western Europe under the authority of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, and for a few years played an important role in the Romanian diaspora. The in Bucharest defrocked Puiu in 1950, but posthumously restored him among its clergy in 1990. Puiu's connections to the Iron Guard, as well as his responsibility in the Holocaust, have been the subject of scholarly publications in the post-communist era. (en)
  • Wissarion, imię świeckie Victor Puiu (ur. 27 lutego 1879 w Pascani, zm. 13 sierpnia 1964) – rumuński biskup prawosławny. (pl)
  • Митрополи́т Виссарио́н (рум. Mitropolit Visarion, в миру Виктор Пую, рум. Victor Puiu; 27 сентября 1879, Пашкань, жудец Яссы — 10 августа 1964, Вьель-Мэзон) — румынский православный митрополит, в 1948—1958 годы — глава Западно-Европейской румынской епархии Русской Православной Церкви Заграницей, до 1950 года — епископ Румынской православной церкви. (ru)
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  • 1879-02-27 (xsd:date)
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  • 1964-08-10 (xsd:date)
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  • 1935-10-17 (xsd:date)
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  • 1964-08-10 (xsd:date)
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  • Paris or Viels-Maisons, France (en)
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  • Visarion Puiu (en)
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  • Bishop of the Romanian Orthodox Diocese of Western Europe (en)
  • Bishop of Argeș (en)
  • Bishop of Hotin (en)
  • Exarch of Transnistria (en)
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  • Wissarion, imię świeckie Victor Puiu (ur. 27 lutego 1879 w Pascani, zm. 13 sierpnia 1964) – rumuński biskup prawosławny. (pl)
  • Митрополи́т Виссарио́н (рум. Mitropolit Visarion, в миру Виктор Пую, рум. Victor Puiu; 27 сентября 1879, Пашкань, жудец Яссы — 10 августа 1964, Вьель-Мэзон) — румынский православный митрополит, в 1948—1958 годы — глава Западно-Европейской румынской епархии Русской Православной Церкви Заграницей, до 1950 года — епископ Румынской православной церкви. (ru)
  • Visarion Puiu (Romanian pronunciation: [visariˈon ˈpuju]; sometimes Bessarion in French; born Victor Puiu on 27 February 1879 in Pașcani, Romania – 10 August 1964 in Paris or Viels-Maisons, France) was a metropolitan bishop of the Romanian Orthodox Church. During World War II, at a time when Romania was an ally of Nazi Germany, he served as the leading Eastern Orthodox clergyman in occupied Transnistria, a territory where several hundred thousand Jews were murdered. In August 1944, when Romania switched sides, he took refuge in Nazi Germany. (en)
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  • Wissarion (Puiu) (pl)
  • Виссарион (Пую) (ru)
  • Visarion Puiu (en)
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