Miklós Dudás OSBM (27 October 1902 – 15 July 1972) was a
Hungarian Greek Catholic hierarch. He was bishop of the
Hungarian Greek Catholic Eparchy of Hajdúdorog from 1939 to 1972, Apostolic Administrator of the
Ruthenian Catholic Eparchy of Mukacheve
The Greek Catholic Eparchy of Mukachevo is an eparchy of the Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church that was erected by Pope Clement XIV in 1771. The geographic remit of the eparchy includes the south-western parts of Ukraine that are roughly within Zak ...
from 1943 to 1946 and Apostolic Administrator of
Apostolic Exarchate of Miskolc from 1946 to 1972.
Life
Born in
Máriapócs,
Austria-Hungary
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in 1902, he was
ordained
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a
priest
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on 8 September 1927. He was appointed a bishop by the
Holy See
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on 25 March 1939. He was
consecrated
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to the
Episcopate
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on 14 May 1939. The principal
consecrator
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was
Antal Papp, and the principal co-consecrators were
Endré Kriston and
Zoltán Lajos Meszlényi.
He died 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 ...
on 15 July 1972.
See also
*
Catholic Church in Hungary
Hungarian Catholics, like elsewhere, are part of the worldwide Catholic Church under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome.
According to a 2019 survey by Eurobarometer, 62% of Hungarians consider themselves Catholics. The Latin Church ...
References
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1902 births
1972 deaths
Bishops of the Hungarian Greek Catholic Church
20th-century Eastern Catholic bishops
Hungarian Eastern Catholics
People from Máriapócs
Order of Saint Basil the Great
Collegium Germanicum et Hungaricum alumni