Valeriu Traian Frențiu (25 April 1875 – 11 July 1952) was the Bishop of the Eparchy of Oradea Mare of the Romanian Greek Catholic Church from 1922 to his death in 1952. His beatification occurred on 2 June 2019.^[1][2][3]

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Blessed Valeriu Traian Frențiu
Bishop of Oradea Mare
Church	Romanian Greek Catholic Church
Diocese	Oradea Mare
See	Oradea Mare
Appointed	25 February 1922
Term ended	11 July 1952
Predecessor	Demetriu Radu
Successor	Vasile Hossu
Orders
Ordination	28 September 1898
Consecration	14 January 1913 by Victor Mihaly de Apşa
Personal details
Born	25 April 1875 Reșița, Romania
Died	11 July 1952(1952-07-11) (aged 77) Sighet Prison, Sighetu Marmației, Maramureș, Romania
Previous post(s)	Bishop of Lugoj (1912–22) Apostolic Administrator of Făgăraş şi Alba Iulia (1941–47)
Alma mater	Eötvös Loránd University
Sainthood
Feast day	11 July
Venerated in	Romanian Greek Catholic Church Roman Catholic Church
Beatified	2 June 2019 Liberty Field, Blaj, Romania by Pope Francis
Attributes	Episcopal attire

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His father was a priest named Joachim and his mother was named Rozalia.

He studied theology in Budapest (1894–1898), and in 1902 he received his Ph.D. in theology.

He was ordained a priest on 28 September 1898. He worked at the Diocese of Lugoj as rector, dean of Drastic, chancellor and vicar apostolical.

On November 4, 1912, he was appointed bishop of Lugoj at age 37. On 25 February 1922, Frentiu was transferred to Oradea and mounted on 3 May that year.

On September 5, 1937, the church dedicated Madaras, and consecrated the church in Istria and Greek-Catholic Bocsa on September 8 of that same year.

After the death of Bishop Alexander Niculescu in 1941, Frentiu was moved to the position of Apostolic Administrator of the Archdiocese of Alba Iulia and Fagaras, ministering here throughout the war. In 1947, he returned to Oradea.

In Oradea he was arrested on October 28, 1948, and went into camp at Dragoslavele, and then the refusal to pass the Romanian Orthodox Church in February 1949, was taken to the monastery Căldăruşani.

At Căldăruşani, Valeriu Traian Frenţiu consecrated Bishop Bishop, underground, on John Chertes the night of Christmas of 1949.

In 1950, he arrived at Sighet Prison, where, after two years, unable to bear the hardness of extermination regime, he died on July 11, 1952. Other bishops also dead in Sighet, was buried in one night, without a coffin in a mass grave in the Cemetery of the Poor. His grave was leveled to obscure his burial place and to avoid pilgrimages to the graves of the martyrs killed in Sighet.

There has been tried and convicted. In 2011, the City Council decision Resita Dr. Valeriu Traian Frenţiu Martyr Bishop was elected Honorary Citizen of Resita Post Mortem, a town where Frenţiu was born.

On 19 March 2019, Pope Francis approved the beatification of Frenţiu and six other Greek-Catholic bishops killed by the communist regime in Romania in the mid-20th century.^[4] Pope Francis personally presided over the beatification of Frențiu and the other six bishops at Liberty Field in Blaj, Romania on 2 June 2019.^[1][2]

• He renovated the Greek Catholic Church in Beiuș at his own expense
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• Frențiu sitting among priests including Fr. Alexander Ratiu.