Tamás Szabó (born 30 October 1956) is a controversial and former Hungarian

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of the

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Biography

Born in

Zirc Zirc () is a town in Veszprém county, Hungary. It is the administrative seat of Zirc District. At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, Jews lived in Zirc. In 1910, 92 Jews lived in Zirc, Some of them were murdered i ...

, he was

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on 20 August 1988. On 28 November 2001 he was appointed the leading Catholic chaplain in the

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. Szabó received his

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on 12 January 2002 from László Cardinal Paskai, with Archbishop István Seregély and Bishop Lajos Pápai serving as

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. He resigned as

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for the Catholic Military Ordinariate of Hungary on 15 March 2007 in order to pursue

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with a woman he met in the Church's charismatic movement. Other sources report this woman works in the

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. Szabó told ''

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'' that, "I do not want to talk about my private life. I don't think that is a public matter."

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Catholic-Hierarchy profile
1956 births Living people People from Veszprém County 21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in Hungary Laicized Roman Catholic bishops {{Hungary-RC-bishop-stub