Bishop Vladimír Fekete,

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(born 11 August 1955 in Chorvátsky Grob,

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, present day

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) is a Slovak-born Roman Catholic prelate as the Apostolic Prefect of

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(since 5 November 2009 until 4 August 2011 as Superior of the Mission sui iuris) and Titular Bishop of Municipa (since 8 December 2017).

Life

Bishop Fekete was born in the Roman Catholic family in Chorvátsky Grob. After graduation of the school education in his native city, he continued his study with mathematics and geology at the

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of the Comenius University. During this time he clandestinely joined the Salesians of Don Bosco and made a

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on 15 February 1975. With the solemn profession in 1981, he was ordained as

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on 30 January 1983, after completed his clandestine philosophical and theological study. Until 1989 he worked as geologist and secretly made a pastoral work among youth. After 1989 Fr. Fekete performed such ministries: as provincial vicar of the Salesians in Slovakia (1993–1999) and a provincial superior in Slovakia (1999–2005). Also he made a licentiate degree at the

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(1999). On 5 November 2009 he was appointed by

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as the Superior of the Mission sui iuris of Baku (on 2011 this Mission was elevated in a rank of Prefecture Apostolic), and on 8 December 2017 by

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he was appointed as

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of Municipa. On 11 February 2018 he was consecrated as bishop by Archbishop

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and other prelates of the

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. The proposal of coat of arms for bishop created by Marek Sobola, a heraldic artist from Slovakia, who also made a coat of arms of the Apostolic prefecture of Azerbaijan.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Fekete, Vladimir 1955 births Living people Slovak Roman Catholic priests Clergy from Bratislava Salesians of Don Bosco Comenius University alumni John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin alumni 21st-century Roman Catholic titular bishops