Roman Catholic Diocese of Nitra
Diocese of Nitra Dioecesis Nitriensis Biskupstvo Nitra | |
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Roman Catholic | |
Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
Rite | Roman Rite |
Established | June 880 |
Cathedral | St. Emmeram's Cathedral in Nitra |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Bishop | Viliam Judák |
Metropolitan Archbishop | Stanislav Zvolenský |
Auxiliary Bishops | Peter Beňo |
Map | |
Map of the Diocese | |
Website | |
biskupstvo-nitra.sk |
The Diocese of Nitra (
History
The diocese was created as the first one on the territory of present-day Slovakia around 880 (from the
On 14 February 2008, the territory of the diocese was reorganized. The diocese lost northern parts to the newly created
Bishops through 1892
- Saint Methodius of Thessaloniki
- Wiching (880—891)[1][2]
- Anonymus (900—906) (?)
- Svätý Bystrík (?1005—1046)
- Gerváz (1106)
- I. Miklós (1133)
- Pál (Savol) (1137)
- I. János (1156)
- I. Tamás (1165)
- Edvárd (1168—1198)
- II. János (1204)
- I. Vince (1220—1222)
- I. Jakab (1223—1240)
- I. Ádám (1241)
- Bartolomäus (1242—1243)
- II. Ádám (1244—1252)
- II. Miklós (1253—1255)
- II. Vince (1255—1272)
- I. Fülöp (1272)
- I. Péter (1279—1281)
- Pascház (1281—1297)
- III. János (1302—1328)
- Mieszko of Bytom (1328—1334)
- Vasvári Vid (Vitus de Castroferreo) (1334—1347)
- III. Miklós Vásári (1347—1348)
- Nicholas Apáti (1349)
- I. István de Insula (Szigeti) (1350—1367)
- I. László de Demjen (Demjéni) (1368—1372)
- Domonkos de Novoloco (Újhelyi) (1373—1384)
- I. Dömötör (1387—1388)
- I. Gergely (1388—1392)
- II. Mihály de Hédervári (1393—1399)
- II. Péter Poliak (Polonus) (1399—1403)
- Hinco (1404—1427)
- I. György Berzeviczy (1429—1437)
- Dénes Szécsi de Felsőlendva (1438—1439)
- II. László Csetneki (1440—1447)
- IV. Miklós (1448—1456)
- Albert Hangács Vétesi (1458—1459)
- Illés (1460—1463)
- II. Tamás Debrenthei (1463—1480)
- II. Gergely (1484—1492)
- I. Antal Sánkfalvi (1492—1500)
- V. Miklós Bácskai (1501—1503)
- Zsigmond Thurzó (4 August 1503 - 15 November 1504)
- II. István Podmanický (1505-1530)
- I. Ferenc Thuróo (1534-1557)
- Pál Abstemius-Bornemissza (1557-1579)
- Zakariás Mossóczy (1582-1587)
- III. István Fejérkövy (1587-1596)
- Ferenc Forgách (1596-1607)
- István Szuhay (1607 - 9 June 1608)
- Bálint Lépes (1608-1619)
- János Telegdy (1619-1624)
- V. István Bosnyák (1644)
- V. János Püsky (1645-1648)
- II. György Szelepcsényi (1648-1666)
- Leopold Karl von Kollonitsch (1666-1669)
- III. Tamás Pálffy (1669-1679)
- János Gubasóczy (1679-1685)
- III. Péter Korompay (1686-1690)
- II. Jakab Haskó (1690-1691)
- I. Balázs Jáklin (1691-1695)
- III. László Mattyasovszky (1696-1705)
- IV. Count László Ádám Erdödi de Monyorókerék (1706-1736)
- János Ernő Harrach (1738-1739)
- I. Count Imre Gábor Esterházy de Galántha (1740-1763)
- János Gusztínyi-Zubralovszky (1 January 1764 - 31 January 1777)
- Antal Révai (1780-1783)
- Ferenc Xavér Fuchs (1787-1804)
- József Kluch (1808-1826)
- József Vurum (1827-1838)
- Imre Palugyay (1838 - 27 July 1858)
- Ágoston Roskoványi (1859-1892)
Recent bishops
Imre Bende
Vilmos Batthyány
Viliam Batan[4] or Vilmos Batthyány (full name Hung. Vilmos Németújvár Count Batthyány Mary Tivadar Gobert)[5] (born 14 March 1870, Zalaszentgrót, Hungary today; died 24 November 1923, Körmend, Hungary)
Born into the Batthyány, noble family of Hungary, the son of Count Batthyány de Németújvár and Countess Sigismund Erdődy.[6]
He studied
After the establishment of Czechoslovakia in 1918 Hungarian Church hierarchy were perceived as a threat to national interests of the new republic and demanded to resign. Batan as a lawyer, tried to oppose the demands, however he was unsuccessful and several Hungarian prelates were escorted to the bridge over the Danube in Esztergom.[8] Batan left shortly after.[9]
Karol Kmeťko
Karol Kmeťko was one of the signatories of the Martin Declaration of 30 October 1918. From 1918 to 1920 he was a member of the Revolutionary National Assembly, in 1920 he became a Member of the National Assembly. On its mandate, he resigned in 1922 after assuming the functions of a bishop.[10]
After the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the creation of Czechoslovakia, the Nitra bishop (Viliam Batan) was expelled from Czechoslovakia.
Eduard Nécsey
Dr. Eduard Nécsey (born 9 February 1892, Oslany; died 19 June 1968, Nitra) was a Roman Catholic cleric, Titular Archbishop and Apostolic Administrator of the diocese of Nitra. Studied and ordained at
Ján Pásztor
Ján Pásztor (born 27 January 1912, Prievidza – died 8 November 1988) Educated in his native Prievidza. He studied theology in Nitra seminary and at the Charles University. Ordination in 1934 at Nitra parish and further studytill WW2. A doctorate in theology at Charles University (1937) Law at University of Bratislava (1942). He became a priest in Dubnica in 1947 and In 1950 he was interned in a camp at Močenku and in 1953 imprisoned. After his release he worked as a parish administrator till 1961 and as till 1967. Pope Paul VI appointed him consultor of the Roman Commission for the revision of the Church's Code (1968), and he later became the capitular vicar. In the 1960s he negotiated between the Czech government and the Vatican, and in 1973 he was appointed Bishop of Nitra.[14]
Ján Chryzostom Korec
Ján Chryzostom Korec; born 22 January 1924; died 24 October 2015.
He was ordained in 1950, and named a bishop in 1951 (at 27, and was consecrated clandestinely). On 6 February 1990, he was appointed Bishop of Nitra (Cardinal in 1991); retired 9 June 2005.
Viliam Judák
Viliam Judák is the current bishop.
References
- ^ List of Bishops at diocese webpage.
- ^ List of Bishops at catholic-hierarchy.org
- ^ A Pallas nagy lexikona. Budapest : A Pallas Irodalmi és Nyomdai Rt., 1893–1897.
- ^ BAŤÁN, Viliam. In: Biografický lexikón Slovenska : I A – B. Martin: Slovenská národná knižnica, 2002. 638. p 265.
- ^ GUDENUS, János József. A magyarországi főnemesség XX. századi genealógiája. Budapest : Heraldika; (Arcanum, 2005). Kapitola Batthyány, p129.
- ^ GUDENUS, János József. A magyarországi főnemesség XX. századi genealógiája. (Budapest : Heraldika; Arcanum, 2005). Kapitola Batthyány, p129
- ^ VICZIÁN, János. Batthyány Vilmos. In: Magyar Katolikus Lexikon. Ed. Diós, István. Budapest : Szent István Társulat
- ^ DOLINSKÝ, Juraj. Cirkev a štát na Slovensku v rokoch 1918 – 1945. Redakcia Mgr. Mária Fúriková. (Trnava : Dobrá kniha, 1999.). p25-30
- ^ KISS, Balázs. Államfordulat Nyitrán (1918–1923). Kisebbségkutatás – Szemle a hazai és külföldi irodalomból – Minorities Studies and Reviews (Budapest), roč. 17, čís. 2.
- ^ ČECHOVÁ, Franiška. Kontakt nitrianskeho biskupa ThDr. Karola Kmeťku s politickým životom a jeho každodenné povinnosti. Človek a spoločnosť (Košice: Spoločenskovedný ústav SAV), 2004, 7, 3
- ^ See Nitra Papal Nuncio in Prague Clemente Micarahttp://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bkmetko.html
- ^ catholic-hierarchy entry.
- ^ "Pripomíname si nedožité 120. Výročie narodenia Eduarda Nécseyho".
- ^ "Pripomíname si nedožité 100. Výročie narodenia biskupa Pásztora".
External links
- Diocese of Nitra at catholic-hierarchy.org
- Diocese of Nitra on the Catholic Encyclopedia at newadvent.org