Vladimir Ghika

Vladimir Ghika or Ghica (December 25, 1873 in Constantinople, now Istanbul, Turkey; May 16, 1954 in Jilava, Bucharest in Romania) was a Romanian diplomat and essayist who, after his conversion from Romanian Orthodoxy to Roman Catholicism, became a priest, dying in prison after his arrest by the Communist regime. He was a member of the princely Ghica family which ruled Moldavia and Wallachia from the 17th to the 19th century. Monsignor Vladimir Ghika's beatification, proposed by Archdiocese of Bucharest, and based on a dossier with his biography, will take place in August 31, 2013.