On October 25, 2018, during his working session, the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church elevated to the rank of Saint, the bishop Dionisie Erhan (1868-1943), an ecclesiastical personality who marked the history of Bessarabia and Moldova in the 1st half of the 20th century. Dionisie Erhan was in particular Archimandrite of the monastery of Suruceni for 26 years (from 1908 to 1934) before being named bishop of Cetatea Albă and Izmail (two sites located today in the Ukrainian region of Budjak, between the south of Moldova and the Black Sea) in 1932 and bishop of Argeş (city located in Romania today) in 1940..
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