Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kalocsa–Kecskemét

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Archdiocese of Kalocsa–Kecskemét

Archidioecesis Colocensis–Kecskemetensis

Kalocsa–Kecskeméti főegyházmegye
Diocese of Szeged–Csanád
Vicar GeneralFinta József
Episcopal VicarsPolyák Imre
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The Archdiocese of Kalocsa–Kecskemét (

Diocese of Szeged–Csanád. Its patron saint is Saint Paul
. The current archbishop is Balázs Bábel, who was appointed in 1999.

History

Establishment

In his monography about the early history of the Archbishopric of Kalocsa, the Hungarian historian László Koszta concludes that the "establishment of the Diocese of Kalocsa is one of the most debated issues of our ecclesiastic history in the

metropolitan archdiocese or an archbishopric without suffragan bishops—is obscure; its first (arch)bishop is uncertain; and its connection with the see of Bács (now Bač, Serbia) is debated.[2]

According to Hartvik, an early-12th-century biographer of the first king of Hungary, Stephen I, the king "divided his territories into ten bishoprics", making the archbishopric of Esztergom "the metropolitan and master of the others", and bestowed "the dignity of the bishop of Kalocsa" on Abbot Astrik.[3] Astrik, continued Hartvik, was appointed to the see of Esztergom to substitute Archbishop Sebastian who had gone blind, but Asterik "returned to Kalocsa with the pallium" (the archbishops' specific vestment) when Sebastian received back his sight three years later.[4] Stephen's earlier hagiography, the longer version of the Life of Saint Stephen, King of Hungary, did not mention this episode and exclusively referred to Astrik as archbishop of Esztergom.[4] The cathedral church at Kalocsa was dedicated to Paul the Apostle who was renowned especially for his missionary activities.[5] The patron saint implies that the see was established as a missionary bishopric, possibly aimed at the conversion of the so-called Black Hungarians (as it is proposed by historian Gábor Thoroczkay).[5]

Most historians developed their views about the establishment of the see on Hartvic's report.

Diocese of Pécs), and the Banat (which later developed into the Diocese of Csanád) were included in the new bishopric.[5]

One George was the first archbishop mentioned in a contemporaneous source: in 1050 or 1051 he was one of the prelates who assisted Pope Leo IX to celebrate a mass in Lotharingia.[4]

The Archdiocese of Kalocsa was probably originally set up as a

Diocese of Csanád also became a suffragan
to the Archdiocese of Kalocsa.

Secular offices connected to the archbishopric

The archbishops of Kalocsa were, from the 15th century to 1776, the perpetual counts (Hungarian: Bács vármegye örökös főispánja, Latin: Bacsiensis perpetuus supremus comes).

Ordinaries

Sources

References

  1. ^ Koszta 2013, p. 7.
  2. ^ a b Thoroczkay 2009, p. 50.
  3. ^ Koszta 2013, pp. 12, 28–29.
  4. ^ a b c d e Koszta 2013, p. 14.
  5. ^ a b c d Thoroczkay 2009, p. 52.

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