Bishopric of Szeged-Csanád

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Bishopric of Szeged-Csanád
Map of the Diocese of Szeged-Csanád
Basic data
Country Hungary
Metropolitan bishopric Archdiocese of Kalocsa-Kecskemét
Diocesan bishop László Kiss-Rigó
Emeritus diocesan bishop Endre Gyulay
Vicar General Imre Kiss
founding 1030
surface 10,851 km²
Parishes 112 (December 31, 2014 / AP2016 )
Residents 887,000 (December 31, 2014 / AP2016 )
Catholics 360,900 ( 12/31/2014 / AP2016 )
proportion of 40.7%
Diocesan priest 103 (December 31, 2014 / AP2016 )
Religious priest 13 (December 31, 2014 / AP2016 )
Catholics per priest 3.111
Permanent deacons 3 (December 31, 2014 / AP2016 )
Friars 60 (December 31, 2014 / AP2016 )
Religious sisters 32 (December 31, 2014 / AP2016 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language Hungarian
cathedral Votive Church of Our Lady of Hungary
address Aradi-Vertanuk tere 2
Post Box 178
6720 Szeged, Magyarorszag
Website http://www.szeged-csanad.egyhazmegye.hu
Szeged Cathedral

The Diocese of Szeged - Csanád ( German Diocese of Szegedin-Tschanad ; Latin: Dioecesis Szegediensis-Csanadiensis ), located in Hungary , was established in 1030 as the Diocese of Csanád . This date of foundation can be found in the Pressburger ( Bratislava / Pozson) annals. The founder of the diocese was Saint Stephen , the first Christian king of Hungary, who appointed Saint Gérard as bishop of the newly established diocese in 1030 .  

The diocese of Csanád belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Kalocsa-Kecskemét . It covered the area of ​​today's Timiș , Caras-Severin , Arad , Csanád and parts of Csongrád and Békés , and thus an area of ​​13,713 km².

In the 16th century, during the peasant uprising led by György Dózsa (1514), Bishop Nicholas Csáky was impaled. After the Battle of Mohács (1526) , in which Bishop Franz Csaholy (1514–26) was killed, the diocese fell to Johann Zápolya, an ally of the Turks . In 1552, when the Turks conquered Timisoara and took over the diocese of Csanád, it was almost completely destroyed. Only after the end of the Ottoman occupation and the Peace of Passarowitz (1718) Bishop Ladislaus Nádasdy (1710-30) called the diocese back to life. The largely depopulated country was settled with German colonists by the Swabian migrations. At the time of Bishop Ladislaus Köszeghy (1800–1828) the seminary was founded, Bishop Alexander Csajághy (1851–1860) brought the poor school sisters of Our Lady of Notre Dame monasteries to the diocese, and Alexander Bonnaz (1860–1889) established the boys' seminary .

The seat of the diocese was moved from Timișoara to Szeged no later than June 19, 1931 (other sources: 1923). This was preceded by the establishment of the Timișoara diocese after the Concordat of Romania from the Romanian territories of the diocese.

The construction of Hungary's fourth largest church, the Szeged Cathedral or Votive Church , which began in 1913 but was interrupted by the First World War , was completed in 1930.

On August 5, 1982, the diocese was renamed the Diocese of Szeged-Csanád. On May 31, 1993 the diocese, as well as the Archdiocese of Eger , had to cede territory to the newly established Diocese of Debrecen-Nyíregyháza .

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  1. ↑ Zoltán Kocsik: Episcopul Sfântul Gerard , Gerhardinum Timișoara, accessed on December 16, 2017 (Romanian)
  2. ^ Joseph Lins:  Csanád . In: Catholic Encyclopedia , Volume 4, Robert Appleton Company, New York 1908.