György Snell (8 March 1949 – 26 February 2021) was a Hungarian

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Biography

Snell was born in

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and was ordained to the priesthood in 1972. He served as auxiliary bishop of ''Pudentiana'' and as auxiliary bishop of the

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from 2014 until his death in 2021 from

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during the

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1949 births 2021 deaths 21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in Hungary People from Csongrád-Csanád County Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Hungary {{RC-bishop-stub