Artemie Munteanu

Artemie Munteanu

Artemie (Auxenţie) Munteanu (b. 1888, d. unknown, after 1940) was a Bessarabian Romanian Christian Orthodox hieromonk. In 1914, he joined the Noul Neamţ Monastery. In 1921, he took the monkhood. In 1926, Artemie Munteanu was ordained hierodeacon, in 1934 hieromonk, and on August 1, 1936, he became the abbot of the Noul-Neamţ Monastery. After the start of the Soviet occupation of Bessarabia, Artemie Munteanu was condemned to hard labor for "anti-Soviet, enemy activity", and was sent to the Soviet labor camps, from where he did not return.

Bibliography

* "Martiri pentru Hristos, din România, în perioada regimului comunist", Editura Institutului Biblic şi de Misiune al Bisericii Ortodoxe Române, Bucureşti, 2007, p. 764


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