An American Roman Catholic priest of Hungarian descent, he serves as pastor to the Hungarian Catholic communities in the United States. His parents emigrated from Vas County; he was born in the U.S. In addition to Hungarian, he spoke German and Vend.

He completed his theological studies at the Pontifical College Josephinum in Worthington, Ohio. The college’s obituary lists him as a member of the class of 1943. He was ordained a priest in 1943. He began his priestly ministry in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia; the Diocese of Allentown was not established until 1961, when it was carved out of part of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.

His first assignment in 1943 was at St. Stephen of Hungary, the Hungarian church in Allentown, where he served as an assistant pastor. In 1944, he was transferred to the Our Lady Help of Christians parish, also in Allentown, and then returned to St. Stephen’s Church in 1946. In 1948, he was assigned to Philadelphia, where he served at St. Henry Parish.

Starting in 1951, he once again participated in the pastoral care of Pennsylvania’s Hungarian Catholic communities. He served in Bethlehem at St. John Capistrano Church, then again at St. Stephen’s Church in Allentown from 1953 to 1957. From 1957 to 1960, he provided pastoral care to the Catholic community in McAdoo. The surviving records for the period 1951–1965 also list his ministry in Bethlehem; therefore, the exact chronology of his various posts requires further verification of sources.

Later, he served as pastor at Sacred Heart Parish in Philadelphia, where he also performed pastoral duties for the Hungarian community. A significant part of his priestly career was thus connected to the Hungarian and Hungarian-American Catholic communities in Pennsylvania. Among his places of ministry, St. Stephen’s Church in Allentown and St. John Kapisztrán Church in Bethlehem in particular represented the region’s historic Hungarian Catholic presence.

A curious detail is associated with the later stage of his life: according to surviving biographical records, he also served as chaplain at a yacht club in Quaker City, Ohio. This presumably did not constitute a permanent ecclesiastical appointment, but rather a pastoral or honorary assignment associated with the club. The exact identity of the club and the time frame of his service are not yet known.

György Spaits passed away on March 29, 2000. The obituary from the Pontifical College Josephinum lists the same date of death, and the Express-Times published an obituary about him the following day under the headline “George S. Spaits, Catholic priest.”