# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/visarion-puiu
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:47:03.996Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/visarion-puiu"
name: "Visarion Puiu"
slug: "visarion-puiu"
description: "Visarion Puiu 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."
tagline: "Romanian Eastern Orthodox bishop (1879–1964)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Visarion_Puiu.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "TV Personality"
  slug: "tv-personality"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1879-09-27"
deathDate: "1964-08-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.52
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.807812
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visarion_Puiu"
    title: "Visarion Puiu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wissarion_(Puiu)"
    title: "Wissarion (Puiu)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visarion_Puiu"
    title: "Visarion Puiu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%BD_(%D0%9F%D1%83%D1%8E)"
    title: "Виссарион (Пую)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%96%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%96%D0%BE%D0%BD_(%D0%9F%D1%83%D1%8E)"
    title: "Віссаріон (Пую)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4112237"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump