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Archdiocese of Esztergom-Budapest

Archidioecesis Strigoniensis-Budapestinensis

Esztergom-Budapesti Főegyházmegye
The Cathedral Basilica of Esztergom
Location
Country Hungary
TerritoryEsztergom-Budapest
Ecclesiastical provinceEsztergom-Budapest
MetropolitanEsztergom-Budapest
Statistics
Area1,543 km2 (596 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics		(as of 2013)
Decrease 2,088,000
Decrease1,254,000 (Decrease60.1%)
Parishes188
Information
DenominationRoman Catholic
RiteLatin
Established10th Century
(Archdiocese of Esztergom )
31 May 1993
(As Archdiocese of Esztergom-Budapest )
CathedralPrimatial Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of Mary and St Adalbert (Esztergom Basilica)
Patron saintSaint Stephen I
Current leadership
PopeFrancis
Metropolitan ArchbishopCardinal Péter Erdő
SuffragansDiocese of Győr, Diocese of Székesfehérvár
Auxiliary BishopsFerenc Cserháti
János Székely
György Snell[1]
Bishops emeritusGáspár Ladocsi
Map
Map of the Archdiocese
Map of the Archdiocese
Website
Website of the Archdiocese

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Esztergom-Budapest (Template:Lang-la) is the primatial see of the Roman Catholic Church in Hungary and the Metropolitan of one of its four Latin rite ecclesiastical provinces.

The Metropolitan archbishopric retains the title of Primate, which gives this see precedence over all other Hungarian dioceses, including the fellow Metropolitan Archbishops of Eger, Hajdúdorog (cfr. infra, Byzantine rite archeparchy), Kalocsa–Kecskemét and Veszprém, but the incumbent may be individually (adn temporarily) outranked if one of them holds a (higher) cardinalate. Its current Archbishop is Péter Erdő.

Duality and special churches

Its double name reflects that it has (co-)cathedral sees in two major Hungarian cities, the old primatial archiepiscopal seat Esztergom and the present national capital Budapest. These two prominent cities fall under the tutelage of one archdiocese due to Hungary's early history wherein Esztergom was one of the former capitals of the Kingdom of Hungary (much larger than the present republic – roughly the eastern half of the Habsburg empire).

The archiepiscopal Cathedral and primatial see is : Nagyboldogasszony és Szent Adalbert főszékesegyház Nagyboldogasszony és Szent Adalbert főszékesegyház, in Esztergom-Vár.

The Co-Cathedral, a Minor Basilica and World Heritage Site, is Szent István király bazilika társszékesegyház, in Budapest-Szentistvánváros

The archdiocese has a second Minor Basilica: Kisboldogasszony-templom Kisboldogasszony-templom, Máriaremete, at Székesfehérvár, in Fejér.

Statistics

As per 2014, it pastorally served 1,253,000 Catholics (60.1% of 2,086,000 total) on 1,543 km² in 153 parishes and 28 missions with 435 priests (254 diocesan, 181 religious), 23 deacons, 725 lay religious (266 brothers, 459 sisters) and 38 seminarians.

Ecclesiastical province

The Metropolitan's suffragan sees are the Latin Bishops of:


The former Roman Catholic Diocese of Hajdúdorog, until then also its suffragan, was elevated in 2015 to Hungarian Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Hajdúdorog (Eastern Catholic archdiocese), now the Metropolitan (with two suffragans in his own province) in chief of the Hungarian Greek Catholic Church, of Byzantine Rite.

History

Archiepiscopal Ordinaries

(all Roman Rite)

Metropolitan Archbishops of Esztergom (Gran)
BIOs TO ELABORATE
  • Domonkos (archbishop 1000)
  • Sebestyén (Sebastian) (archbishop 1001)
  • Radla (archbishop 1002)
  • Anastaz-Astrik (archbishop ca.1007)
  • Sebestyén (again) (archbishop after 1012)
  • Benedek-Beneta (archbishop 1046-1055)
  • Dezső (archbishop 1067)
  • Nehemias (archbishop 1075- 1077/79)
  • Acha (archbishop 1087-ca.1090)
  • István (Stephan) (archbishop 1093)
  • Seraphin (archbishop 1094)
  • Lőrinc (Lawrence) (archbishop 1105)
  • Marcel (archbishop 1116)
  • Felician (archbishop 1127)
  • Makár (b. 1143–b. 1150)
  • Kökényes (archbishop 1150)
  • Martyrius (archbishop 1151)
  • Lucas (archbishop 1158)
  • Nicholas (1181 - 1183)
  • Job (archbishop 1185)
  • Ugrin ''de genere'' Csák (archbishop April 1204 - August 1204)
  • Kalán (archbishop 1204)
  • John (archbishop 1205)
  • Tamás (Thomas) (archbishop February 1224 - November 1224)
  • Robert (1226 - 1239)
  • Mátyás (Mathias) de genere Rátót (primate, archbishop 1239)
  • István (Stephan) de genere Báncsa (archbishop, cardinal 1242)
  • Benedek (archbishop 1254)
  • Fülöp Szentgróti (archbishop 1262)
  • Miklós (Nicholas) de genere Kán (archbishop 1273)
  • Benedek (archbishop 1274)
  • Miklós (Nicholas) de genere Kán (again) (archbishop 1276)
  • Lodomer (1279 - 1298)
  • Gregory Bicskei (archbishop-elect, 1298 - 1303)
  • Mihály (Michael) de genere Bő (archbishop 1303)
  • Tamás (Thomas) (archbishop 1305)
  • Boleslav Piast (archbishop 1321)
  • Miklós (Nicholas) Dörögdi (archbishop 1328)
  • Csanád Telegdi (archbishop 1330)
  • Miklós (Nicholas) Vásári (archbishop 1350)
  • Miklós (Nicholas) Keszei (archbishop 1367)
  • Tamás (Thomas) Telegdi (archbishop 1367)
  • János (John) De Surdis (archbishop 1376)
  • Demeter (archbishop 1378)
  • János (John) Kanizsai (primate, archbishop 1387 From 1395)
  • Péter (Peter) (apostolic coadjutor - 1418)
  • László (Ladislaus) Csetneki (apostolic coadjutor - 1418)
  • György (George) Hohenlohe (apostolic coadjutor - 1418)
  • János (John) Borsnitz (apostolic coadjutor - 1418)
  • György Pálóczy (primate, archbishop - 1423)
  • Dénes Szécsi (primate, archbishop - 1440)
  • János Vitéz (primate, archbishop - 1465 - 1472)
  • Johann Beckenschlager (primate, archbishop 15 Mar 1474 - 21 Mar 1487)
  • John of Aragon (primate, archbishop - 1480)
  • Hippolit Estei (primate, archbishop - 1486)
  • Tamás Bakócz (primate, archbishop, cardinal - 1497 - 1521)
  • György Szatmári (primate, archbishop - 1522)
  • László Szalkai (primate, archbishop - 1524)
  • Pál Várdai (primate, archbishop 1526 - 12 Oct 1549 )
  • Giorgio Martinuzzi (primate, archbishop, cardinal - 1551)
  • Miklós Oláh (primate, archbishop - 1553)
  • Antal Verancsics (Antun Vrančić) (primate, archbishop 17 Oct 1569 - 15 Jun 1573 )
  • Miklós Telegdy (primate, archbishop 1580 - 22 Apr 1586 )
  • István Fehérkövi (primate, archbishop - 1596)
  • János Kutasi (primate, archbishop - 1597)
  • Ferenc Forgách (primate, archbishop - 1607)
  • Péter Pázmány (primate, archbishop, cardinal 28 Oct 1616 - 19 Mar 1637 )
  • Imre Lósi (primate, archbishop - 1637)
  • György Lippay (primate, archbishop - 1642)
  • György Szelepcsényi (primate, archbishop - 1666)
  • György Széchényi (primate, archbishop - 1685)
  • Leopold Karl, Graf von Kollonitsch (primate, archbishop, cardinal 22 Aug 1695 - 20 Jan 1707 )
  • Christian August of Saxe-Zeitz (prince primate, archbishop, cardinal 20 Jan 1707 - 23 Aug 1725 )
  • Imre Esterházy (prince primate, archbishop - 1725)
  • Miklós Csáky (prince primate, archbishop - 1751)
  • Ferenc Barkóczy (prince primate, archbishop - 1761)
  • József Batthyány (prince primate, archbishop 20 May 1776 - 23 Oct 1799 )
  • Karl Ambrosius of Austria (prince primate, archbishop 16 Mar 1808 - 2 Sep 1809 )
  • Alexander Rudnay (prince primate, archbishop 17 Dec 1819 - 13 Sep 1831 )
  • József Kopácsy (prince primate, archbishop 15 Dec 1838 - 17 Sept 1847)
  • János Hám (prince primate, archbishop June 1848 - July 1849)
  • Johannes Scitovszky (prince primate, archbishop 28 Sep 1849 - 19 Oct 1866 )
  • János Simor (prince primate, archbishop 22 Feb 1867 - 23 Jan 1891 )
  • Kolos Ferenc Vaszary, O.S.B. (prince primate, archbishop, cardinal 13 Dec 1891 - 1 Jan 1913 )
  • János Csernoch (prince primate, archbishop, cardinal 13 Dec 1912 - 25 Jul 1927 )
  • Jusztinián György Serédi, O.S.B. (prince primate, archbishop, cardinal 30 Nov 1927 - 29 Mar 1945 )
  • József Mindszenty (prince primate, archbishop, cardinal 2 Oct 1945 - 18 Dec 1973 )
    • Endre Hamvas (apostolic coadjutor 18. July 1950)
    • Mihály Endrey (apostolic coadjutor 9. February 1957)
    • Artur Schwarz-Eggenhoffer (apostolic coadjutor 6. June 1957)
    • Imre Szabó (apostolic coadjutor 10. January 1957)
    • Imre Kisberk (apostolic coadjutor 28. September 1971)
    • László Lékai (as apostolic coadjutor 2. February 1974)
  • László Lékai (as primate, archbishop, cardinal 12 Feb 1976 - 30 Jun 1986 )
  • László Paskai (primate, archbishop, cardinal 3 March 1987 - 7 Dec. 2002 see below).
Metropolitan Archbishops of Esztergom-Budapest
BIOs TO ELABORATE
  • László Paskai (see above3 March 1987 - 7 December 2002) (As Archbishop of Esztergom until 1993)
    • Auxiliary Bishop: Imre Asztrik Várszegi, O.S.B. (1988.12.23 – 1991.03.18)
    • Auxiliary Bishop: Vilmos Dékány, Sch. P. (1988.12.23 – 2000.05.19)
    • Auxiliary Bishop: Archbishop Csaba Ternyák (later Archbishop) (1992.12.24 – 1997.12.11)
    • Auxiliary Bishop: Antal Spányi (1998.02.13 – 2003.04.04)
    • Auxiliary Bishop: Miklós Beer (2000.04.08 – 2003.05.27)
    • Auxiliary Bishop: Gáspár Ladocsi (2001.11.28 – 2010.11.26)
  • Péter Erdõ (7 December 2002 - ...), created Cardinal-Priest of S. Balbina (2003.10.21 [2004.03.09] – ...), also President of Hungarian Episcopal Conference (2005.09 – 2015.09.02), President of Council of European Bishops’ Conferences (2006.10.08 – 2016.10.08); previously Titular Bishop of Puppi (1999.11.05 – 2002.12.07) as Auxiliary Bishop of Székesfehérvár (Hungary) (1999.11.05 – 2002.12.07)
    • Auxiliary Bishop: László Kiss-Rigó (2004.01.24 – 2006.06.20)
    • Auxiliary Bishop: György Udvardy (2004.01.24 – 2011.04.09)
    • Auxiliary Bishop: János Székely (2007.11.14 – 2017.06.18)
    • Auxiliary bishop Ferenc Cserháti (2007.06.15 – ...), Titular Bishop of Centuria (2007.06.15 – ...)
    • Auxiliary bishop György Snell (2014.10.20 – ...), Titular Bishop of Pudentiana (2014.10.20 – ...)

Auxiliary episcopate

TO ELABORATE & WORK-IN ABOVE
    • Auxiliary Bishop: István Bagi (1979.03.31 – 1986.01.31)
    • Auxiliary Bishop: Iván Pálos (1975.01.07 – 1987.03.28)
    • Auxiliary Bishop: György Zemplén (1969.01.10 – 1973.03.29)
    • Auxiliary Bishop: Mihály Endrey-Eipel (1957 – 1972)
    • Auxiliary Bishop: Imre Szabó (1951.03.11 – 1976.05.21)
    • Auxiliary Bishop: Blessed Zoltán Lajos Meszlényi (1937.09.22 – 1953.01.11)
    • Auxiliary Bishop: Stefano Breyer (1929.04.05 – 1933.12.13)
    • Auxiliary Bishop: Lajos Rajner (1906.06.14 – 1920.03.27)
    • Auxiliary Bishop: Josef Medard Kohl, O.S.B. (1900.12.17 – 1928.01.15)
    • Auxiliary Bishop: Paulus Palásthy (1886.05.04 – 1899.09.24)
    • Auxiliary Bishop: József Boltizár (1875.08.24 – 1905.05.17)
    • Auxiliary Bishop: Joseph Szabó (1868.06.22 – 1884.04.27)
    • Auxiliary Bishop: Giuseppe Durguth (1865.09.25 – ?)
    • Auxiliary Bishop: Emerico Tóth (1857.09.25 – 1865.01.06)
    • Auxiliary Bishop: Jozef Viber (1856.06.19 – 1866.01.15)
    • Auxiliary Bishop: Joseph Krautmann (1852.03.15 – 1855)
    • Auxiliary Bishop: Peter de Ürményi (1820.08.28 – 1839.11.15)
    • Auxiliary Bishop: Giovanni Benyovszky (1820.08.28 – 1827?)
    • Auxiliary Bishop: Istvan Gosztonyi (1815.12.18 – 1817)
    • Auxiliary Bishop: Karol Perényl (1808.07.11 – 1819.03.15)
    • Auxiliary Bishop: Nikolaus Rauscher (1808.03.16 – 1815)
    • Auxiliary Bishop: József Király (1807.09.18 – 1808.01.11)
    • Auxiliary Bishop: Márton Görgey (1804.09.24 – 1807.08.01)
    • Auxiliary Bishop: Ladislaus Luzenszky (1779.12.13 – 1792)
    • Auxiliary Bishop: Stephanus Nagy (1776.12.16 – 1804)
    • Auxiliary Bishop: Georgius Richvaldszky (1776.12.16 – 1779.08.07)
    • Auxiliary Bishop: Anton Révay (1754.05.20 – 1776.09.16)
    • Auxiliary Bishop: Paulus de Révay (1753.03.12 – 1776)
    • Auxiliary Bishop: Ferenc Zichy (1742.09.24 – 1744.03.16)
    • Auxiliary Bishop: Giorgio Trivulzio, B. (1678.11.07 – 1689)

See also

References

  1. ^ http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2014/10/20/0776/01637.html
  • GCatholic.org with Google map - data for all sections
  • Archdiocese of Gran (in Catholic Encyclopedia) (not fully used here)
  • Archdiocese of Esztergom-Budapest website (only in Hungarian)
  • Catholic Hierarchy
  • History of the Archdiocese (only in Hungarian)
  • Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Archdiocese of Gran" . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
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