Štefan Vrablec

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Štefan Vrablec (born February 21, 1925 in Závod ; † September 1, 2017 in Nitra ) was a Slovak Roman Catholic clergyman and auxiliary bishop in Bratislava-Trnava .

Life

Štefan Vrablec was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Trnava on December 23, 1950 in Rome . During the rule of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia , however, he was unable to return home and was chaplain in Cesiomaggiore from 1951 . In 1964 he became spiritual in Assisi and from 1967 he was editor of the Slovak Cyril and Method Publishing House (SÚSCM) in Rome. In 1992 he was appointed rector of the Slovak Cyril and Methodological Institute, which in 1997 was elevated to the rank of Pontifical College . He also helped out in pastoral care in the Roman district of Isola Farnese.

Pope John Paul II appointed him auxiliary bishop in Bratislava - Trnava and titular bishop of Thasbalta on June 19, 1998 . The Bishop of Nitra Ján Chryzostom Cardinal Korec SJ donated him episcopal ordination on October 2nd of the same year ; Co- consecrators were Ján Sokol , Archbishop of Trnava , and Archbishop Luigi Dossena , Apostolic Nuncio in Slovakia .

On April 2, 2004, Pope John Paul II accepted his age-related resignation. He last lived in the monastery of the Vincentian Sisters in Nitra, where he also died.

His brother is the theologian Jozef Vrablec .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Zomrel biskup Štefan Vrablec. aktuellity.sk, September 2, 2017, accessed on September 2, 2017 (Slovak).
  2. ↑ Vo veku 92 rokov zomrel bývalý pomocný biskup Štefan Vrablec. September 2, 2017, accessed September 3, 2017 (Slovak).
personal data
SURNAME Vrablec, Štefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovak, Roman Catholic clergyman and auxiliary bishop in Bratislava-Trnava
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Závod , Czechoslovakia
DATE OF DEATH 1st September 2017
Place of death Nitra , Slovakia