Roman Catholic Church in Hungary

The Roman Catholic Church in Hungary has six million Catholic Christians . In addition to twelve dioceses , four of which are archdioceses , there is a jurisdiction- led Apostolic Exarchate and a diocese for the approximately 290,000 Greek Catholic Christians in the country who celebrate their worship according to the Byzantine rite .

List of the dioceses of Hungary

The dioceses in Hungary.

Latin Church

• Archdiocese of Eger
  • Diocese of Debrecen-Nyíregyháza
  • Diocese of Vác
• Archdiocese of Esztergom-Budapest
  • Diocese of Győr
  • Bishopric of Székesfehérvár
• Archdiocese of Kalocsa-Kecskemét
  • Diocese of Pécs
  • Bishopric of Szeged-Csanád
• Archdiocese of Veszprém
  • Diocese of Kaposvár
  • Bishopric of Szombathely
• Pannonhalma Territorial Abbey
• Hungarian military ordinariate

Greek Catholic Church

• Archeparchy of Hajdúdorog
  • Miskolc Eparchy
  • Nyíregyháza eparchy

The central organ of the Hungarian bishops is the Hungarian Catholic Bishops' Conference .

Directory of the nuncios

The first Apostolic Nuncio of the Holy See in Hungary was in 1920 by Pope Benedict XV. used. After World War II, diplomatic relations were interrupted until 1990. The nunciature is located in the capital Budapest .

• August 10, 1920 to May 3, 1925: Lorenzo Schioppa (1871-1935)
• June 2, 1925 to March 18, 1930: Cesare Orsenigo
• March 20, 1930 to April 6, 1945: Angelo Rotta

• March 28, 1990 to February 8, 1997: Angelo Acerbi
• April 25, 1997 to February 22, 2003: Karl-Josef Rauber
• April 9, 2003 to April 10, 2011: Juliusz Janusz
• June 6, 2011 to December 2017: Alberto Bottari de Castello
• since July 4, 2018: Michael August Blume

See also

• Latin Church
• Greek Catholic Church
• List of Roman Catholic Dioceses

literature

• Norbert Spannenberger: The Catholic Church in Hungary, 1918–1939. Positioning in the political system and the “Catholic Renaissance” . Steiner, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-515-08668-4 .
• Gabriel Adriányi: Small Church History of Hungary . Schäfer, Herne 2003, ISBN 3-933337-30-5 .
• Gabriel Adriányi: The History of the Catholic Church in Hungary . Böhlau Vienna-Cologne-Weimar 2004, ISBN 3-412-10404-3 .

Web links

• Official website of the Roman Catholic Church in Hungary (Hungarian), (German), (English), (Italian)
• Official Website of the Greek Catholic Church in Hungary (Hungarian)
• Archbishoprics / Dioceses in Hungary (Hungarian)
• Greek Catholic Church in Hungary (English)
• Entry on Roman Catholic Church in Hungary on catholic-hierarchy.org
• Entry on statistics by ecclesiastical province on catholic-hierarchy.org
• Entry on statistics by diocese on catholic-hierarchy.org