Július Gábriš (5 December 1913 in
Tesárske Mlyňany
Tesárske Mlyňany ( hu, Taszármalonya) is a village and municipality in Zlaté Moravce District of the Nitra Region, in western-central Slovakia. – 13 November 1987 in
Trnava) was a
Slovak Bishop, Apostolic Administrator of
Archdiocese of Trnava during communist-controlled
Czechoslovakia.
Biography
Born 1913 in
Tesárske Mlyňany
Tesárske Mlyňany ( hu, Taszármalonya) is a village and municipality in Zlaté Moravce District of the Nitra Region, in western-central Slovakia. , he was educated in
Zlaté Moravce
Zlaté Moravce (; 1776 Morawce, hu, Aranyosmarót, german: Goldmorawitz) is a town in south-western Slovakia.
Basic data
It is the capital and the biggest town of Zlaté Moravce District. It is approximately 120 km from the Slovak capital B ...
,
Comenius University in
Bratislava
Bratislava (, also ; ; german: Preßburg/Pressburg ; hu, Pozsony) is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Slovakia. Officially, the population of the city is about 475,000; however, it is estimated to be more than 660,000 — approxim ...
and at the seminary in
Trnava. He was ordained on 26 June 1938 by
Pavol Jantausch Pavol Jantausch (27 June 1870 – 29 June 1947) was a Czechoslovakian priest and Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. During the Second World War he protested the antisemitic policies of the Nazi aligned Slovak Republic (1939–45).
Biography
Born ...
. He worked as priest in
Tekovské Šarluhách,
Holíč and
Stupava. In 1951 he was promoted to dean in Jablonice, and soon after
Nové Mesto nad Váhom.
In 1969
Ambróz Lazík, apostolic administrator of
Trnava, died and then
Pope Paul VI
Pope Paul VI ( la, Paulus VI; it, Paolo VI; born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini, ; 26 September 18976 August 1978) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City, Vatican City State from 21 June 1963 to his ...
appointed him as successor. However his appointment was opposed by the
communist
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government of Czechoslovakia
The government of Czechoslovakia under Marxism–Leninism was in theory a dictatorship of the proletariat. In practice, it was a one-party dictatorship run by the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, the KSC.
In the 1970s and 1980s the government s ...
and it was only 4 years later, on 3 March 1973, that he was able to receive official
consecration
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which took place in
Nitra by
Cardinal Casaroli,
František Tomášek
František Tomášek (30 June 1899, in Studénka, Moravia – 4 August 1992, in Prague, Czechoslovakia) was a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church in Bohemia, the 34th Archbishop of Prague, and a Roman Catholic theologian. His "cautious but ...
, and
Trochty. Following the 1977 normalization of relations between the Czech State and
the Church he was raised to the rank of
archbishop
In Christian denominations, an archbishop is a bishop of higher rank or office. In most cases, such as the Catholic Church, there are many archbishops who either have jurisdiction over an ecclesiastical province in addition to their own archdi ...
.
Julius Gábriš
at catholic-hierarchy.org. He was also titular bishop of Decori. He died in 1987 in Trnava.
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Gabris, Julius
1913 births
1987 deaths