Father Andrei Iancu, confessor under the communist persecution

As we study the archives of the former Securitate, we find more and more unknown Orthodox clergy, especially from the ranks of those who gave their lives for Christ under the Communist persecution. One of them is Father Andrei Iancu from Lunca Tulcei. He was born on 30 November 1914 into a family of simple, hard-working farmers and believers from Lunca, Tulcea County. After primary school, the young Iancu entered the Ismail Theological Seminary, graduating in 1935. He continued his priestly studies at the Faculty of Theology in Cernăuți, where he received his bachelor’s degree in 1939. He returned to […]

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