page_title: Collegium Russicum
section_title: Notable Alumni
hierarchical_section_title: Collegium Russicum / Notable Alumni
caption_attribution_description: English: Theodore Romzha (Ukrainian: Теодор Ромжа, Hungarian: Tódor Romzsa, 1911–1947) bishop of the Ruthenian Catholic Eparchy of Mukacheve from 1944 to 1947 Magyar: Romzsa Tódor (1911-1947) munkácsi görög katolikus püspök, vértanú
context_page_description: The Collegium Russicum is a Catholic college in Rome dedicated to studies of the culture and spirituality of Russia.
  It is located near the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, separated from the Pontifical Oriental Institute by the Church of Saint Anthony, and is known informally as the Russicum.
  It was founded on August 15, 1929, by Pope Pius XI, who was touched by the large flow of immigrants from Bolshevik Russia and the persecution of Christianity in that country. The money for the college building and its reconstruction was taken from an aggregate of charity donations from faithful all over the world on the occasion of the canonization of St. Thérèse de Lisieux, placing the Russicum under her patronage.
  The Collegium Russicum is run by the Society of Jesus and provides education and accommodation for Catholic and Orthodox students.
context_section_description: Walter Ciszek, S.J. (1904-1984) — American priest of the Russian Greek Catholic Church, GULAG survivor, author of With God in Russia.
  Ján Kellner (1912-1941) — Slovak priest, missionary to USSR, executed in Kiev in 1941.
  Pietro Leoni (1909-1995) — Italian priest of the Russian Greek Catholic Church, survivor of the GULAG, author of Spio dei Vaticano.
  Blessed Theodore Romzha (1911-1947) — Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church Bishop of the Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Mukacheve, martyr under Joseph Stalin.
  Egon Sendler, S.J. (1923-2014) — French priest.
caption: Blessed Theodore Romzha (1911-1947)
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