Theodore Romzha
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Blessed Martyr Theodore Romzha |
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| Eparch of Mukacheve | |
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| Church | Ruthenian Catholic Church |
| Diocese | Eparchy of Mukacheve |
| Appointed | 8 September 1944 |
| Term ended | 31 October 1947 |
| Predecessor | Oleksandr Stoika |
| Successor | vacant till 1983, then Ivan Semedi |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 25 December 1936 (Priest) |
| Consecration | 24 September 1944 (Bishop) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 14 April 1911 Velykyi Bychkiv, Austria-Hungary (now Ukraine) |
| Died | 31 October 1947 (aged 36) Uzhhorod, Ukrainian SSR |
| Sainthood | |
| Feast day | 31 October (martyrdom); 28 June (translation of relics) |
| Venerated in |
Greek Catholic Churches Roman Catholic Church |
| Title as Saint | Blessed Martyr |
| Beatified | 27 June 2001 Lviv by Pope John Paul II |
Blessed Theodore Romzha (Ukrainian: Теодор Юрій Ромжа, Hungarian: Tódor György Romzsa, 14 April 1911 – 31 October 1947) was bishop of the Ruthenian Catholic Eparchy of Mukacheve from 1944 to 1947. Assassinated by NKVD, he was beatified as a martyr by Pope John Paul II on 27 June 2001.
Theodore Romzha was born in the Subcarpathia region, Hungary, Austria-Hungary (in the Rusyn village Velykyi Bychkiv, now Ukraine) on 14 April 1911.
His father, Pavel Romzha, worked as an official of the railroad. His mother, the former Maria Semack, was a full-time homemaker. Like many ambitious families in the region, the Romzhas spoke the Hungarian language in the home. In the presence of others, however, they switched to their native Rusyn language. After his graduation from the Gymnasium in Khust, Theodore left to study for the priesthood in Rome. He began as a seminarian at the Collegium Germanicum, but later switched to the Russicum.
Theodore was ordained a priest there by Bishop Aleksander Evreinov on Christmas Day, 1936 in the Basilica of St Mary Major. After completing his compulsory military service he served briefly as a pastor in several Transcarpathian parishes (part of Czechoslovakia since 1918) before being assigned as professor of philosophy at the Eparchial Seminary in Uzhhorod in 1939, now given back to Hungary.
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