Vasile Grigorcea was a Romania

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n diplomat. His main assignments were minister plenipotentiary of Romania to Hungary

Hungary

Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

, Poland and the Vatican.

His assignment to Hungary was cut short on September 30, 1936 due to the reshuffling of the Romanian diplomatic corps after the dismissal of Nicolae Titulescu

Nicolae Titulescu

Nicolae Titulescu was a well-known Romanian diplomat, at various times government minister, finance and foreign minister, and for two terms President of the General Assembly of the League of Nations . He was a member of the Freemasonry.-Early years:...

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As minister to Poland he arrived in Warsaw

Warsaw

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 on August 30, 1939, replacing Richard Franasovici. He could not present his credentials before the outbreak of World War II

World War II

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In 1940 he was appointed minister plenipotentiary to the Vatican

Holy See

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. In this capacity he negotiated with the Vatican the relations of the Romanian Greek-Catholic Church

Romanian Church United with Rome, Greek-Catholic

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 whose dioceses had been divided after northern Transylvania

Transylvania

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 had been ceded to Hungary following the second Vienna Award

Vienna Awards

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. He was recalled in 1941, being replaced by general Dănila Papp, a change which angered the Vatican.
In 1943, Ion Antonescu

Ion Antonescu

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, the Romanian Prime-Minister, requested that King Michael I of Romania

Michael I of Romania

Michael was the last King of Romania. He reigned from 20 July 1927 to 8 June 1930, and again from 6 September 1940 until 30 December 1947 when he was forced, by the Communist Party of Romania , to abdicate to the Soviet armies of occupation...

 dismiss baron Ioan Mocsony-Stârcea, marshal

Marshal

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 of the Royal Court. Vasile Grigorcea was proposed as one of the possible candidates, but declined the offer.

In the fall of 1943, Vasile Grigorcea was reappointed minister plenipotentiary to the Vatican. He discussed the concerns of Pope Pius XII

Pope Pius XII

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 regarding the Moscow Declaration

Moscow Declaration

The Moscow Declaration was signed during the Moscow Conference on October 30, 1943. The formal name of the declaration was "Declaration of the Four Nations on General Security". It was signed by the foreign secretaries of the Governments of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union...

and the dangers foreseen for the future of Eastern Europe.