István Miklósy (22 August 1857 – 29 October 1937) was a Hungarian Greek Catholic hierarch. He was the first eparchial bishop of the Hungarian Greek Catholic Eparchy of Hajdúdorog from 1913 to 1937. Born in

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(present day –

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) in 1857, he was

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on 17 April 1884. He was appointed the Bishop by the

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on 23 June 1913. He was

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to the

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on 5 October 1913. The principal consecrator was Bishop

Julije Drohobeczky Julije Drohobeczky ( uk, Юлій Дрогобецький; 5 November 1853 – 11 February 1934) was a Ruthenian and Croatian Greek Catholic hierarch. He was the bishop from 1891 to 1917 (in fact – until 1914) of the Eastern Catholic Eparchy o ...

, and the principal co-consecrators were Bishop

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and Bishop

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. He died in Nyíregyháza on 29 October 1937.

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