Imre Timkó (13 August 1920 – 30 March 1988) was a
Hungarian Greek Catholic hierarch. He was bishop of the
Hungarian Greek Catholic Eparchy of Hajdúdorog from 1972 to 1988 and Apostolic Administrator of
Apostolic Exarchate of Miskolc from 1972 to 1988.
Born in
Budapest
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,
Hungary
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in 1920, he was
ordained
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a
priest
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on 8 December 1945. He was appointed the Bishop by the
Holy See
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on 7 January 1975. He was
consecrated
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to the
Episcopate
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on 8 February 1975. The principal
consecrator
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was Bishop
Joakim Segedi
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, and the principal co-consecrators were Archbishop
József Ijjas and Archbishop
József Bánk.
He died in
Nyíregyháza
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on 30 March 1988.
References
1920 births
1988 deaths
20th-century Eastern Catholic bishops
Bishops of the Hungarian Greek Catholic Church
Hungarian Eastern Catholics
Clergy from Budapest
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