The “Year of Cardinal Iuliu Hossu” ((1885-1970) officially started on Sunday 5^th January with Mass in the Greek Catholic Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Blaj, Romania, celebrating the memory of the Romanian bishop who was a martyr to communism and was beatified in 2019. Proposed by two MPs on behalf of the Jewish community and the national minorities, the year was approved by the Romanian Parliament in 2023 and established by President Klaus Iohannis. Celebrated nationwide all through 2025, the Year aims to commemorate Iuliu Hossu’s life, work, personality, martyrdom and role in the development of the unification, in 1918, of the Romanian Provinces that compose today’s Romania and his efforts in support of persecuted Jews. He was persecuted himself as from 1948, when the Romanian Government outlawed Romania’s Greek Catholic Church, and until his death in a hospital in Bucharest, after nearly 22 years detained in prison and in several Orthodox monasteries. He humbly refused a Cardinal appointment and Paul VI made him cardinal in pectore at the consistory of 28^th April, 1969, while his name was revealed at the one of 5^th March, 1973. In 2025, Romanians are therefore called to “rediscover the value of unity, communion and sacrifice for one’s faith and ideals”, the Greek Catholic Bishop Claudiu Lucian Pop, successor to the Blessed card. Iuliu Hossu in the Bishop’s seat of Cluj-Gherla, explains in a letter. The Year of Cardinal Iuliu Hossu will be celebrated through a number of initiatives and events.