[News] REVOLTER Former bishop of Huși, arrested for rape and then RELEASED, continues to serve

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REVOLTĂTOR Fostul episcop de la Huși, arestat pentru viol, iar apoi ELIBERAT, continuă să slujească

 

The former bishop of Huși, Corneliu Onilă, continued to serve, after his retirement, following the sexual scandal with seminary students in which he was involved. This, although he is no longer allowed to do so, according to the canons of the Romanian Orthodox Church.

The proof is a picture taken by the journalists from safielumina.ro, taken at the Văratec Monastery in Agapia commune, Neamț county, on April 19, 2020. The source of the photo is the Facebook account of the monastic establishment. The picture was made public before the former bishop was arrested.
The retired bishop Corneliu returned, after his release from custody, to the Văratec Monastery, where he resides in a guest house of the monastic site. The host of the most holy accused of rape is the abbess of Văratec Monastery, the nun Iosefina Giosanu, who is the sister of the Archbishop of Roman and Bacău, Ioachim Giosanu.

Onilă lives with an aide-de-camp, the archimandrite monk Iorest, named Lean Iulian Matei. Ten years ago, Iorest was a simple monk, the quoted source also writes. Today, Iorest holds the highest monastic honorary rank, and in his CV he writes that he was exarch of the monasteries from Vaslui County.
As can be seen in the photo, on the left side of it, just entering the frame, is the former retired bishop Onilă. Although this is not clear in the image, Let There Be Light sources claim that Onila also wore the engolpion on that day, ie the medallion with the icon displayed (as a distinctive sign of clerical power) by the bishops.

In the center, in the background, shrouded in an aura of light right at the exit of the altar, is His Eminence Calinic of Botosani, the vicar bishop of the Archdiocese of Iasi, who has as superior rank Metropolitan Theophanes of Moldavia and Bucovina. In the center, close up, is the priest-monk Iorest. On the right is the abbess Iosefina Giosanu.

According to the Prosecutor's Office attached to the Iaşi Court of Appeal, the former bishop of Huşi is being investigated for 'continuous sexual assault' to the detriment of a minor injured person at the time of the crime ', as well as a crime of' continuous rape '.

Sebastian Cristi Jitaru, a former archimandrite monk at the Episcopal Cathedral in Huşi, who is in custody, serving a sentence imposed by a previous final conviction, is also being investigated for three separate offenses of continuous rape in harm to minor injured persons at the time of the commission of the acts', 'continued blackmail' and 'sexual assault to the detriment of a minor injured person at the time of the commission of the act'.

A scandal broke out in June 2017 at the Hussite Diocese, when Corneliu Bârlădeanul, then bishop of the Hussites, complained to DNA that he was blackmailed by three priests who asked him for money or positions so as not to make public a record in which the prelate would he appeared while having homosexual relations with a person believed to be a student at the Huşi Theological Seminary, currently a priest in a parish in Vaslui County.

Subsequently, the three priests, including Sebastian Cristi Jitaru, were sentenced to prison with execution.
The former bishop of the Hussites retired in August 2017.