ieremia teodor cecan (first name also jeremia, eremia or irimia, last name also ciocan; , "yeremya fedorovich chekan"; 1867 or 1868 – june 27, 1941) was a bessarabian-born romanian journalist, bessarabian orthodox priest, and far-right political figure. during the first part of his life, he was active in the bessarabia governorate of the russian empire, putting out the pioneering church magazine "nashe obyedineniye". his opposition to russification and his advocacy of social improvement led to a public scandal and then to is demotion by church officials, and pushed cecan into independent journalism. however, his sympathies remained with the conservative-antisemitic union of the russian people, down to world war i.