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Karol Kmeťko
Karol Kmeťko (December 12, 1875 – December 22, 1948) was the Roman Catholic Bishop of Nitra in Slovakia (1920-1948) and personal archbishop (from 1944). Early life and ordination Born in Veľké Držkovce, in the Trencsén County of the Kingdom of Hungary (present-day Slovakia), his interest in Catholicism led him to the priesthood. At the age of 23, Kmetko was ordained a priest in Nitra on July 2, 1899. Twenty-one years later, on February 13, 1921, he was appointed Bishop of Nitra. Bishop Before the 1942 deportations of Jews from Slovakia, Kmeťko confronted the president of the Slovak State, Jozef Tiso, with reliable reports of the murder of Jews in the Ukraine. Kmeťko asked: "How can the government allow he deportations when it is said that they carry the ewsoff to their death?" According to Kmeťko, Tiso replied "with something that I meťkocould not fully accept: ‘It’s enough for me that I have assurances from the Germans that they treat he Jews ...
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Karol Kmeťko (1875-1948)
Karol Kmeťko (December 12, 1875 – December 22, 1948) was the Roman Catholic Bishop of Nitra in Slovakia (1920-1948) and personal archbishop (from 1944). Early life and ordination Born in Veľké Držkovce, in the Trencsén County of the Kingdom of Hungary (present-day Slovakia), his interest in Catholicism led him to the priesthood. At the age of 23, Kmetko was ordained a priest in Nitra on July 2, 1899. Twenty-one years later, on February 13, 1921, he was appointed Bishop of Nitra. Bishop Before the 1942 deportations of Jews from Slovakia, Kmeťko confronted the president of the Slovak State, Jozef Tiso, with reliable reports of the murder of Jews in the Ukraine. Kmeťko asked: "How can the government allow he deportations when it is said that they carry the ewsoff to their death?" According to Kmeťko, Tiso replied "with something that I meťkocould not fully accept: ‘It’s enough for me that I have assurances from the Germans that they treat he Jews ...
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