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Eastern Catholic bishop
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Vil'khivtsi, Tiachiv Raion, Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine
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Karaganda, Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan
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86 years
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Bishop Alexander Chira was a bishop of the Ruthenian Catholic Church. His immediate predecessor was Bishop Theodore G. Romzha. He is designated as a Confessor of the Faith.
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Chira was born January 17, 1897, in the village of Irhóc, Máramaros County ((Vilhivci/Vilʹkhivtsi/Olkhovtsy).His death was in exile on May 26, 1983 in the city of Karaganda, Kazakhstan.
Chira "was one of the many victims of the Soviet persecution of the Greek Catholic Church." While in a concentration camp in 1956, Chira clandestinely was appointed a bishop.
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