Bishop Atanáz László Orosz (born 11 May 1960 in

Nyíregyháza Nyíregyháza (, sk, Níreďháza) is a city with county rights in northeastern Hungary and the county capital of Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg. With a population of 118,001, it is the seventh-largest city in Hungary and the second largest in t ...

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) is a Hungarian Greek Catholic hierarch as the Eparchial Bishop of the new elevated

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since 20 March 2015 and was the Titular Bishop of Panium and Apostolic Exarch of Apostolic Exarchate of Miskolc from 5 March 2011 until 20 March 2015. Also he served as the Apostolic Administrator of the new created

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from 20 March 2015 until 31 October 2015.

Life

Bishop Orosz was born in the family of the Greek-Catholic priest and, after graduation of the school education, joined the Theological Faculty of the

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. He was ordained as a

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on August 4, 1985 in

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, after completed philosophical and theological studies. Orosz continued a superior studies in the

Alphonsian Academy 150px, St. Alphonsus de Liguori, whose teachings inspired the establishment of the Academy. The Pontifical Alphonsian Academy (; ), also commonly known as the Alphonsianum, is a pontifical institution of higher education founded in 1949 by the Re ...

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(1985–1987). Also he was a prefect, and after – rector of the Major Theological Seminary in

and experienced monastic life in the

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. In 1999, together with his friend

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, they founded a Hungarian Greek-Catholic monastery in Dámóc. On March 5, 2011, he was appointed by the

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as an Apostolic Exarch of the Apostolic Exarchate of Miskolc and

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of Panium. On May 21, 2011, he was consecrated as bishop by Archbishop Cyril Vasiľ and other hierarchs of the

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References

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