Artemie Munteanu (1888-after 1940) was a Bessarabia

Bessarabia

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n Romanian Christian Orthodox hieromonk

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. In 1914, he joined the Noul Neamţ Monastery. In 1921, he took the monkhood. In 1926, Artemie Munteanu was ordained hierodeacon

Hierodeacon

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, in 1934 hieromonk, and on August 1, 1936, he became the abbot

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 of the Noul-Neamţ Monastery. After the start of the Soviet occupation of Bessarabia, Artemie Munteanu was condemned to hard labor

Hard Labor

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for "anti-Soviet, enemy activity", and was sent to the Soviet labor camps, from where he did not return.