Bishop Atanáz László Orosz (born 11 May 1960 in

Nyíregyháza Nyíregyháza (, ) is a city with county rights in northeastern Hungary and the county capital of Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg. With a population of 118,001, it is the seventh-largest city in Hungary and the second largest in the Northern Great ...

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) is a Hungarian Greek Catholic hierarch as the Eparchial Bishop of the new elevated

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since 20 March 2015 and was the Titular Bishop of Panium and Apostolic Exarch of

Apostolic Exarchate of Miskolc The Eparchy of Miskolc (Latin ''Dioecesis Miskolcensis'') is an eparchy (diocese) of the Hungarian Greek Catholic Church which is a particular church ''sui iuris'' of the Catholic Church. It uses the Byzantine Rite in the Hungarian language in it ...

from 5 March 2011 until 20 March 2015. Also he served as the Apostolic Administrator of the new created Hungarian Catholic Eparchy of Nyíregyháza from 20 March 2015 until 31 October 2015.

Life

Bishop Orosz was born in the family of the Greek-Catholic priest and, after graduation of the school education, joined the Theological Faculty of the

Pázmány Péter Catholic University Pázmány Péter Catholic University (PPKE) ( (''PPKE'')) is a private university in and near Budapest, Hungary, belonging to the Catholic Church in Hungary, Catholic Church and recognized by the state. While PPKE takes its name after an insti ...

. He was ordained as a

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on August 4, 1985 in

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, after completed philosophical and theological studies. Orosz continued a superior studies in the

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(1985–1987). Also he was a prefect, and after – rector of the Major Theological Seminary in

and experienced monastic life in the

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. In 1999, together with his friend

Péter Fülöp Kocsis Péter Fülöp Kocsis (born 13 January 1963 in Szeged, Hungary) is the metropolitan archbishop of the Archeparchy of Hajdúdorog and the head of the Hungarian Greek Catholic Church. Biography Metropolitan Fülöp studied philosophy and theology ...

, they founded a Hungarian Greek-Catholic monastery in

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. On March 5, 2011, he was appointed by the

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as an Apostolic Exarch of the

and

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of Panium. On May 21, 2011, he was consecrated as bishop by Archbishop

Cyril Vasiľ Cyril Vasiľ, S.J. (born 10 April 1965) is a Slovak Jesuit prelate who has served as Eparch of Košice in the Slovak Greek Catholic Church since June 2021, after serving as apostolic administrator there for 16 months. He holds the personal tit ...

and other hierarchs of the

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References

1960 births Living people People from Nyíregyháza Pázmány Péter Catholic University alumni 21st-century Eastern Catholic bishops Bishops of the Hungarian Greek Catholic Church Alphonsian Academy alumni Hungarian Eastern Catholics {{EasternCatholic-bishop-stub