Many Roman Catholic clerics, alongside their approx. 600 Greek-Catholics counterparts, were held in communist prisons from as early as 1947 and throughout the 1950s. Five of the six bishops, including both bishops of the recognized dioceses, Anton Durcovici and Áron Márton, were placed in custody. Among Roman Catholic clerics to die in confinement were the bishops Szilárd Bogdánffy and Durcovici, "Monsignor" Ghika, and the Jesuit priest Cornel Chira. In 1949, 15 religious institutes were banned in Romania, and the rest (including the Franciscans) significantly reduced their activities. A number of local Jesuits were kept in imprisonment or under house arrest at the Franciscan friary in Gherla (a situation which lasted for seven years).