Iosif Trifa

Iosif Trifa (3 March 1888 – 12 February 1938) was a Romanian Orthodox priest and evangelist.

In 1914 his second child, a boy this time, Titus Gheorghe, was born, but he also died the following year.

In 1916 Romania entered World War I on the side of the Allies, in an effort to wrangle Transylvania from Austro-Hungarian rule.

World War I ended, but the Spanish flu endemic killed both his wife Iuliana, and his daughter Augustina.

[2] He died in 1938 in Sibiu after heart surgery, and was buried in the city's cemetery.