Sfinţirea clopotelor nou-înfiinţatei Episcopii a Maramureşului. Sighet, 15 octombrie 1939.

The religious spiritual and national needs of the Romanians in Maramureș have claimed for a long time the foundation of an Orthodox Diocese in this part of the country. The old Diocese of Maramureș was reestablished on 1st July 1937, subordinated to the Metropolitan Church of Bukovina and its residency was established in Sighetu Marmației. Since the foundation of the new Orthodox Diocese of Maramureș, it passed over a year until a new hierarch was chosen for the vacant position of bishop. This happened on the 1st of November 1938, when, once the new bishop had been appointed, i.e. His Holiness dr. Vasile Stan, the sequence of the bishops of Maramureș had resumed, after an interruption of almost 200 years. On the 15th of October 1939, on a Sunday after the Pious Paraschiva Holiday, it was decided that a big Orthodox feast should be organized for the sanctification of the four bells of the newly-founded diocese, where military, civil and clerical representatives were invited. The religious service was performed by His Holiness Vasile Stan of Maramureș, His Holiness Nicolae of Oradea and His Holiness Eugeniu Laiu Suceveanul, the vicar of the Metropolitan Church of Bukovina together with a synod of 20 priests. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]