Grigorie Comșa

Born in Comăna de Sus, Brașov County, in the Transylvania region, he went to the village church school where his father taught for over thirty years.

[2] Ordained in September 1915 as an unmarried deacon by Ioan Mețianu, he served at the Sibiu Orthodox Cathedral.

[1] From 1918 to 1919, following the union of Transylvania with Romania, he was a secretary at the presidency of the Directing Council, the temporary authority in the province.

He also belonged to the Romanian Writers' Society and the syndicate of Banat journalists, and was part of Astra's central committee.

[2] He was probably the foremost Orthodox polemicist against Pentecostalism, complaining that the group continued to meet secretly after being denied official recognition.