görög katolikus líceum, Ungvár, Magyar Királyság - Assistant principal; principal from 1939; regular religion teacher; teacher of the history of education, logic, pedagogy, psychology, history, and handicrafts
Gyöngyös, Magyar Királyság - Doctor of Canon Law and Philosophy, lecturer in theology, regular and Lenten preacher, confessor to the clergy and spiritual director to the laity, editor of *Magyar Barát* and *Ferences Kiadványok*, director of the Third Order
Roman Catholic • priest • bencés (Ordo Sancti Benedicti)
Beginning of foreign service
Transfer (previous place of service)
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Beginning of foreign service
1945 – 1948
Komárom, Csehszlovákia - seminar instructor—who, on the side, secretly tutored high school students for their final exams and smuggled them into Hungary by boat at night so they could take the Hungarian final exams.
Roman Catholic • religious brother (not ordained priest) • ferences (Ordo Fratrum Minorum) (Szent István Kusztódia)
Beginning of foreign service
Transfer (previous place of service)
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Beginning of foreign service
1945 – 1968
Róma, Italy - Assistant at St. Anthony University, cook at the Basilica of St. John Lateran, sacristan at the College of St. Bonaventure in Florence, hermit at Alverna
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Transfer (previous place of service)
1943 – 1945
Kolozsvár, Magyar Királyság - shoemaker, food collector, volunteer at a military hospital, and later a prisoner of war
Austria - A papal legate entrusted with the affairs of all Hungarian Catholics, both clerical and lay (appointed to the territories of Austria and Germany)
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Transfer (previous place of service)
1943 – 1945
Rákospalota, Magyar Királyság - religious educator
Roman Catholic • priest • Fort Wayne-South Bend, IN, USA
Transfer (previous place of service)
Transfer (new place of service)
✈
Transfer (previous place of service)
1942 – 1945
USA - Chaplain of the 383rd Infantry Regiment, 96th Infantry Division, with the rank of major, on the Pacific Theater; according to other sources, on the North Africa–Italy Theater
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Transfer (new place of service)
1945 – 1947
Hines Veterans’ Administration Hospital, Maywood, IN, USA - veteran hospital chaplain
Roman Catholic • priest • ciszterciek (Ordo Cisterciensis)
Priestly ordination
Beginning of domestic service
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Priestly ordination
May 8, 1945
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Beginning of domestic service
1945 – 1947
Pázmány Péter Tudományegyetem Hittudományi Kar, Budapest, Magyar Királyság - Basic French-Hungarian exam, concurrently with studies at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music
Roman Catholic • bishop • szalézi (Societas Sancti Francisci Salesii)
Service abroad
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1924 – 1949
Brazília - missionary at the Rio Negro settlement in the Amazon Basin. From 1939, he worked among the Tucano Indians on the border between Venezuela and Colombia
Superior, WI, USA - assistant pastor, then parish priest at the same church starting in 1936; he also taught at the church school and served as an assistant coach
Roman Catholic • priest • ciszterciek (Ordo Cisterciensis)
Service in the homeland
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1927 – 1950
Ciszterci rendi katolikus gimnázium, Baja, Magyar Királyság - High school teacher; deputy principal from 1946 to 1948; assistant headmaster from 1947 to 1950
Róma, Italy - Advisor on ecclesiastical affairs and canon law at the Hungarian Embassy to the Holy See until 1944; during that time, from 1940 to 1947, he served as the founding rector of the Pontifical Hungarian Institute
Roman Catholic • priest • premontrei (Ordo Praemonstratensis)
Service in the homeland
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1936 – 1947
Gödöllő, Magyar Királyság - High school French teacher; also served as principal from 1938 to 1947 and as a private lecturer at Pázmány Péter University from 1941 to 1947
Roman Catholic • priest • Esztergom-Budapest (formerly: Esztergom)
Service in the homeland
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1939 – 1949
Pázmány Péter Tudományegyetem Hittudományi Kar, Budapest, Magyar Királyság - Full professor in the Department of Moral Theology; dean of the Faculty of Theology from 1945 to 1946
Róma, Italy - Pursuing studies and teaching activities, living in Flint, MI, USA, around 1947, then in Roebling, NJ, USA, and in New York, NY, USA, around 1950
Roman Catholic • priest • Fort Wayne – South Bend, IN
Service in the homeland
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1942 – 1946
Központi Papnevelő Intézet, Budapest, Magyar Királyság - Vice Rector, Bursar, and also a religion teacher at the Ranolder Teacher Training Institute (between 1942 and 1944)
Roman Catholic • priest • verbita (Societas Verbi Divini)
Service in the homeland
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1943 – 1946
Magyar Királyság - János Rácz, SVD, served as national secretary of the Society of the Holy Childhood of Jesus; József Magyar visited parishes in Transylvania.
Roman Catholic • priest • ciszterciek (Ordo Cisterciensis)
Service in the homeland
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1944 – 1947
Szent Imre templom, Budapest, Hungary - university student; assistant pastor from 1944 to 1945; high school teacher at the order’s school from 1946 to 1947