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Unholy Vows
Season 05, Episode 13
Air Date December 5, 2000
Previous Foundation of Lies
Next Broken Promises

Unholy Vows refers to episode 13 of the Season 5 of the television series Forensic Files which was broadcast for the first time on December 5, 2000.

Plot summary[]

The story of Archbishop Valerian D. Trifa, former head of the Romanian Orthodox Church in America, is related. Following World War II, Trifa emigrated from Bucharest, Romania to the United States.

In 1957, survivors of Nazi atrocities in Romania recognized him as having directed a bloody 1941 pogrom against Jews. His United States citizenship was revoked, and he was deported to Portugal in 1984. He died three years later.

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