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...weeks protesting Jewish youths and rabbis have pressured the National Council of Churches to oust Archbishop Valerian Trifa, head of the Rumanian Orthodox Episcopate of America, from its governing board. The problem: Trifa, 62, stands accused of having incited mobs that murdered hundreds of Jews in Rumania...
...laws of the church, ruled Judge Emerich B. Freed, "clearly [give] Americans of Rumanian ancestry the right to elect their own bishop." It was a victory for Cleveland's Dr. Viorel Trifa, who was elected bishop by a majority of the church's parishes last year, and for the Very Rev. John Trutza, president of the Episcopate's council. Said Father Trutza: "Our fight was one of Rumanian-American citizens to establish by law their complete freedom from the threat of foreign Communist influence...