61: Deadly Sins (Archbishop Valerian Trifa) | USA

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🗓️ 25 August 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Archbishop Valerian Trifa was the head of the Romanian Orthodox Church of America and Canada. But this pious man was hiding a dark secret about his past in Europe. When members of his congregation informed US authorities that he was in fact the leader of the fascist group, The Iron Guard, he denied it. But with evidence proving the contrary, he had no other choice but to relinquish his US Citizenship and return to Europe. Did His Eminence Valerian have blood on his hands, or was it all a set-up by communist agencies in Romania in an attempt to discredit him?

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1:01.0	Listen or discretion is advised. audiences. A couple of years before the church was near extinction due to a dwindling
1:16.6	number of members. But after World War II a new influx of believers came to the
1:22.1	United States fleeing the devastation of war-torn Europe.
1:26.0	One of the church leaders, VRL Trefa, was among the people who resettled in America.
1:32.0	He was an academic who had studied in Bucharest in Berlin, and his essays were widely published in academic works.
1:40.0	Once he had settled in the States in the 1950s, he decided to step out of academia and became
1:45.9	an ordained minister in the Romanian Orthodox Church and took the religious name Valerian. He was an intelligent and ambitious leader and quickly rose through the ranks of the church.
1:58.1	As early as 1951, he was chosen to be a vicar bishop, and the next year he was ordained as the Bishop of Detroit.
2:06.3	He was enthusiastic about reform and growth, and under his leadership, the Romanian Orthodox church
2:11.9	flourished.
2:13.0	His eminence Valerian was a popular and an influential cleric,
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