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.
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Visarion Puiu and Ion Nistor in Cernăuți, 1918
The new Metropolitan Palace of Cernăuți, where Visarion Puiu lived
Metropolitan Visarion Puiu and King Carol II of Romania
Poglavnik Ante Pavelić, minister Andrija Artuković and Patriarch Germogen Maximov (1942)![The Church of the Holy Archangels [fr] in Rue Jean de Beauvais, Paris](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/%C3%89glise_des_Saints-Archanges%2C_9_bis_rue_Jean-de-Beauvais%2C_Paris_5e.jpg/1280px-%C3%89glise_des_Saints-Archanges%2C_9_bis_rue_Jean-de-Beauvais%2C_Paris_5e.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
The Church of the Holy Archangels [fr] in Rue Jean de Beauvais, Paris
Puiu's tomb in Montparnasse Cemetery. The stone features a quote from Psalm 137: "By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept".
Bust of Puiu at Putna MonasteryActors born in the 1870s 6
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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.
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