List of the Bishops of Trnava
The beginnings of the Archdiocese of Trnava lie in the Apostolic Administratur Trnava , which was ecclesiastically separated from the Archdiocese of Esztergom on May 29, 1922 and which was founded in 1977 by Pope Paul VI. was raised with the Apostolic Constitution Qui divino to the archbishopric and the seat of a metropolitan .
The Archdiocese was renamed the Archdiocese of Bratislava-Trnava by decree of the Congregation for Bishops of May 31, 1995. On February 14, 2008, Pope Benedict XVI. the area around Bratislava and established the Archdiocese of Bratislava , which was also raised to the seat of the Metropolitan . Trnava was assigned to the Archdiocese of Bratislava as a suffragan, but still retained the rank of archbishopric, whose archbishops do not wear a pallium .
| No. | Surname | from | to | description | coat of arms |
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| Apostolic Administrators | |||||
| 01 |
Pavol Jantausch (1870–1947) |
May 29, 1922 | June 29, 1947 (†) |
consecrated titular bishop of Priene on June 14, 1925 |
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| 02 |
Ambróz Lazík (1897–1969) |
June 8, 1947 | April 20, 1969 (†) |
consecrated titular bishop of Appia on August 14, 1949 |
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| 03 |
Julius Gábriš (1913–1987) |
19th February 1973 | 1987 | ordained titular bishop of Decoriana on March 3, 1973 , posthumously appointed archbishop. |
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| Archbishops | |||||
| 01 |
Ján Sokol (* 1933) |
July 26, 1989 | April 18, 2009 |
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| 02 |
Robert Bezák CSsR (* 1960) |
April 18, 2009 | July 1, 2012 | Relieved of office on July 1, 2012 |
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| 03 |
Ján Orosch (* 1953) |
July 11th 2013 | previously auxiliary bishop and then apostolic administrator of Trnava |
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| No. | Surname | from | to | description | coat of arms |
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| 01 |
Michal Buzalka (1885–1961) |
March 17, 1938 | 7th December 1961 | consecrated titular bishop of Cone on May 15, 1938 |
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| 02 |
Vladimír Filo (1940-2015) |
March 17, 1990 | November 23, 2002 | ordained titular bishop of Thucca in Mauretania on April 16, 1990 , from November 23, 2002 coadjutor bishop of Rožňava , there from December 27, 2008 bishop | |
| 03 |
Dominik Tóth (1925-2015) |
March 17, 1990 | April 2, 2004 | consecrated titular bishop of Ubaba on April 16, 1990 |
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| 04 |
Dominik Hrušovský (1926-2016) |
17th December 1992 | April 15, 1996 | ordained titular bishop of Tubia on January 6, 1983 , titular archbishop and apostolic nuncio in Belarus from April 15, 1996 (1996-2001) |
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| 05 |
Ján Orosch (* 1953) |
April 2, 2004 | 2nd July 2012 | consecrated titular bishop of Semina on May 2, 2004 , and apostolic administrator from July 2, 2012 |
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| 06 |
Stanislav Zvolenský (* 1958) |
April 2, 2004 | February 14, 2008 | ordained titular bishop of Nova Sinna on May 2, 2004 , and Archbishop of Bratislava from February 14, 2008 |
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