J%C3%A1nos Scheffler


Jnos Scheffler was a Hungarianborn Catholic priest in Romania and Hungary, bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Szatmr and later the appointed bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gyr. He was imprisoned for opposing the Communist government policies, and was killed in custody in Jilava, Romania. Because of his martyrdom, he was beatified by Pope Benedict XVI in 2011.

He was born in 1887 in Klmnd , Szatmr County, AustriaHungary, but became a citizen of Romania after the Treaty of Trianon in 1920. He was born into a Hungarian Roman Catholic cotter family of Danube Swabian German descent.

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