Romanian Orthodox bishop collaborated with the communist-era secret police, council rules

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BUCHAREST, Romania: A Romanian Orthodox bishop was an informant of the communist-era Securitate secret police ordered to infiltrate groups of Eastern Rite Catholics, a council studying Securitate archives said Thursday.

Andrei Andrecut, bishop for Alba in northwest Romania, was recruited in the 1980s and pressured into signing a written pledge to be an informant under the code name 'Ionica.' The Securitate particularly wanted him to spy on members of the banned Eastern Rite Catholic church, the state council for studying the Securitate archives said.

Andreicut denied having harmed anyone.

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