Eduard Kojnok

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Eduard Kojnok (born August 14, 1933 in Veľká Suchá, today part of Hrnčiarska Ves ; † October 27, 2011 in Rožňava (Rosenau)) was a Slovak clergyman and Roman Catholic bishop of Rožňava .

Life

Eduard Kojnok received in the June 24, 1956 Bratislava , the ordination . In 1956 he was a chaplain in Breznička (Kleinbresnitz) and was obliged to serve in the military in 1956. In 1958 he became a chaplain in Smolník (Schmöllnitz), in 1960 he moved to Veľká nad Ip nachom , in 1961 to Hodejov and in 1964 again to Smolník. After a short assignment as a spiritualist in the seminary in Bratislava, he became a chaplain in Hnúšťa (Nusten) in 1968 and in Jaklovce (Jakelsdorf) in 1970 . In 1977 he took over the parish administration in Dolná Strehová and in 1982 the administration of Gemerská Poloma .

After three decades as a chaplain and provisional parish in rural and small urban communities in communist Czechoslovakia , he was appointed administrator of the Rožňava diocese by Pope John Paul II in 1990 after the Soft Revolution . John Paul II appointed him bishop of Rožňava (Rosenau) on February 14, 1990.

The episcopal ordination donated him to the Cardinal Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples , Cardinal Jozef Tomko , on 18 March 1990; Co- consecrators were Ján Sokol , Archbishop of Trnava , and Ján Chryzostom Korec SJ , Bishop of Nitra .

In 2003 he was the host of Pope John Paul II on his visit abroad to Slovakia in Rožňava. In 2007 he founded a memorial for John Paul II and Paul Hnilica in Rožňava. On December 27, 2008, Pope Benedict XVI. his age-related retirement.

Kojnok died on October 27, 2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mons. Eduard Kojnok - rožňavský emeritný biskup ( Memento of August 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on October 28, 2011
  2. ^ Pope celebrates mass in the eastern Slovak city of Roznava , accessed on October 28, 2011
  3. ^ A memorial to John Paul II and Bishop Hnilica , accessed October 28, 2011
  4. ↑ ROŽŇAVA: Zomrel emeritný biskup Eduard Kojnok , Aktuellity.sk , accessed on October 27, 2011
predecessor Office successor
Michal Bubnic Bishop of Rožňava
1990–2008 		Vladimír Filo
personal data
SURNAME Kojnok, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovak clergyman, Roman Catholic bishop of Rožňava
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Veľká Suchá
DATE OF DEATH October 27, 2011
Place of death Rožňava