Lajos Bálint

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Lajos Bálint (born July 6, 1929 in Delnița ( Hungarian Csíkdelne ), Harghita County , Romania ; † April 4, 2010 in Odorheiu Secuiesc , Harghita County) was Archbishop of Alba Iulia .

Life

Lajos Bálint, an ethnic Hungarian, studied theology in Alba Iulia and was ordained a priest on April 28, 1957 by Bishop Áron Márton . Bálint worked as a pastor in Odorheiu Secuiesc .

Pope John Paul II appointed Lajos Bálint on July 9, 1981 titular bishop of Nova and appointed him auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Alba Iulia . He was ordained episcopate on September 29, 1981, by the Bishop of Alba Iulia, Antal Jakab . He was the second bishop appointed by the Roman Curia in Romania since the end of World War II .

On March 14, 1990, Bálint was appointed bishop , after Alba Iulias was raised to the status of an immediate archbishopric on August 5, 1991 by the Apostolic Constitution Quod satis constat .

He was released from this office on November 29, 1993 after only three years in office by Pope John Paul II and from then on held the title of retired Archbishop . As a result of decades of grueling engagement under constant reprisals by the communist government, his health was under attack.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pedro Ramet, Sabrina P. Ramet: Catholicism and politics in communist societies , p. 200 , Google Books, accessed April 12, 2010
  2. ↑ Pope names Romanian Bishop , Reading Eagle - July 26, 1981 (Google News)
  3. ↑ "Gyászhír: Elhunyt Bálint Lajos (1929–2010) nyugalmazott érsek" ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Szekelyhon, April 5, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.szekelyhon.ro
  4. ↑ "IA romániai magyar kisebbség történeti kronológiája 1990-2003"
predecessor Office successor
Antal Jakab Bishop or Archbishop of Alba Iulia
1990–1993 		György-Miklós Jakubínyi
personal data
SURNAME Bálint, Lajos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian-Romanian archbishop
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Delnița , Harghita County
DATE OF DEATH April 4, 2010
Place of death Odorheiu Secuiesc , Harghita County