János Bárd

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János Bárd (born August 27, 1908 in Mérk (Szatmár County / Austro-Hungarian Monarchy); † September 23, 1982 in Kalocsa ) was a bishop in communist Hungary.

Career

He later had his original family name “Leber” Magyarized under pressure. He decided to become a priest; his bishop sent the gifted seminarians to study in Rome and Innsbruck. Bárd met the Christian philosopher Johannes Baptist Lotz , who drew his attention to the transcendental metaphysics of Nicolai Hartmann . In 1933 he was ordained a priest in Kalocsa. Then Bárd taught at the theological college in Szeged. In 1943 his epistemological work “Az idealismusból a realismus felé. Különös tekintettel Nicolai Hartmann ismeretelméleti valóságtanára “(German: From idealism to realism. With special consideration of Nicolai Hartmann's epistemological theory of reality).

In April 1951, Bárd was ordained a bishop in Kalocsa. As auxiliary bishop he stood at the side of Archbishop Grősz, who was imprisoned in May by the communist rulers until 1956. In July 1951 he and other bishops took the forced oath of loyalty to the Stalinist-led “Hungarian People's Republic, its people and its constitution”. Nevertheless, the “State Office for Religious Affairs” classified him as “reactionary”. After the death of Archbishop Grősz in October 1961, Bárd was appointed Apostolic Administrator by the Pope and, according to the will of the Holy See, was to become the future Archbishop, but was not allowed to exercise the office without state approval. He was transferred to remote villages under pressure. On September 23, 1982 he died as an internee in the Archbishop's Fort of Kalocsa.

Works

  • Az idealismusból a realismus felé. Különös tekintettel Nicolai Hartmann ismeretelméleti valóságtanára. Budapest, 1943.
  • N. Hartmann létmódjai. In: Bölcseleti Közlemények 7., 1941.

literature

  • Diós István: Bárd János . In: Magyar Katolikus Lexikon , I. Budapest, 1993. P. 613 f.
  • Lakatos Andor: A Kalocsai Érsekség 100 esztendeje (1909–2009) . Kalocsa – Pozsony, 2009.

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personal data
SURNAME Bárd, János
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian bishop
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Mérk (Szatmár County / Austro-Hungarian Monarchy)
DATE OF DEATH 23rd September 1982
Place of death Kalocsa