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Stephen Várdai
Stephen Várdai (; died 22 February 1471) was a Hungarian Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal. Biography Stephen Várdai was born in Szabolcs County, Kingdom of Hungary, ca. 1425, the son of nobleman Pelbartus Várdai. He studied at the University of Ferrara, receiving a doctorate in canon law. In his early life, Várdai joined the military to fight against the Ottoman Empire. He later joined the ecclesiastical estate. He was a canon of the cathedral chapter of Eger from 1451 to 1454. He spent 1454 to 1456 in the Voivodeship of Transylvania. In 1456, he returned to Eger in 1456 as provost of the cathedral chapter. He became Vice-Chancellor of the Kingdom of Hungary in 1456, holding this post until 1458. In 1457, he was elected Archbishop of Kalocsa, with Pope Callixtus III confirming his appointment on February 23, 1457. Shortly thereafter, he was sent to the Kingdom of France to negotiate a marriage between Ladislaus the Posthumous and a daughter of Charles VII of Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archdiocese Of Kalocsa
In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop. History In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associated in a larger unit, the diocese (Latin ''dioecesis'', from the Greek term διοίκησις, meaning "administration"). Christianity was given legal status in 313 with the Edict of Milan. Churches began to organize themselves into dioceses based on the civil dioceses, not on the larger regional imperial districts. These dioceses were often smaller than the provinces. Christianity was declared the Empire's official religion by Theodosius I in 380. Constantine I in 318 gave litigants the right to have court cases transferred from the civil courts to the bishops. This situation must have hardly survived Julian, 361–363. Episcopal courts are not heard of again in the East until 398 and in the West in 408. The quality of these courts was lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
