Metropolitanate sui juris of Hajdúdorog, Hungary 🇭🇺 (Hungarian Rite)

Continent: East Europe

Rite: Hungarian (Byzantine)

Type: Metropolitanate sui juris

Name: Hajdúdorog / Haidudoroghen(sis) (Latin)

Suffragan Sees: Miskolc, Nyíregyháza

Depends on: Dicastery for the Eastern Churches

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History

1912.06.08: Established as Diocese of Hajdúdorog / Haidudoroghen(sis) (Latin) (from Metropolitanate sui juris of Făgăraş şi Alba Iulia, Metropolitan Archdiocese of Esztergom, Diocese of Gherla, Armenopoli, Szamos-Ujvár, Diocese of Mukacheve, Diocese of Oradea Mare and Diocese of Prešov and became suffragan of Esztergom)
1930.06.05: Lost territory to establish Diocese of Maramureş
1934.04.09: Lost territory to Metropolitanate sui juris of Făgăraş şi Alba Iulia, Diocese of Maramureş and Diocese of Oradea Mare
2011.03.05: Lost territory to Apostolic Exarchate of Miskolc
2015.03.20: Promoted as Metropolitanate sui juris of Hajdúdorog / Haidudoroghen(sis) (Latin) (with suffragan sees Miskolc and Nyíregyháza and lost territory to establish Diocese of Nyíregyháza)

Contact Info

Address: Hajdúdorogi Püspöki Hivatal, Pf. 60 Bethlen Gábor u. 5, H-4401 Nyíregyháza, Hungary

Papal Visits

Pope Francis (2023.04)

Present Prelates

Metropolitan (2015.03.20 – ...):

Archbishop Peter Fülöp Kocsis (62)

President of Council of the Hungarian Church

Ordinaries

Metropolitans of Hajdúdorog (Hungarian Rite)

Archbishop Peter Fülöp Kocsis (62)
(2015.03.20 – ...)

Metropolitan of Hajdúdorog of the Hungarians (Hungary)
President of Council of the Hungarian Church

Eröm a gyöngesegben

Born:	1963.01.13 (Szeged, Hungary)
Ordained Priest:	1989.08.02
Consecrated Bishop:	2008.06.30

Priest of Hajdúdorog of the Hungarians (Hungary) (1989.08.02 – 2008.05.02)

Apostolic Administrator of Miskolc of the Hungarians (Hungary) (2008.05.02 – 2011.03.05)

Bishop of Hajdúdorog of the Hungarians (Hungary) (2008.05.02 – 2015.03.20)

Metropolitan of Hajdúdorog of the Hungarians (Hungary) (2015.03.20 – ...)

President of Council of the Hungarian Church (2015.03.20 – ...)

Bishops of Hajdúdorog (Hungarian Rite)

Bishop Peter Fülöp Kocsis (62) (later Archbishop)
(2008.05.02 – 2015.03.20)

(see above)

Bishop Szilárd Keresztes
(Apostolic Administrator 2007.11.10 – 2008.05.02)

Bishop Szilárd Keresztes
(1988.06.30 – 2007.11.10)

Born:	1932.07.19 (Nyíracsád, Hungary)
Ordained Priest:	1955.08.07
Consecrated Bishop:	1975.02.08
Died:	2025.08.13 (Nyíregyháza, Hungary † 93)

Priest of Hajdúdorog of the Hungarians (Hungary) (1955.08.07 – 1975.01.07)

Titular Bishop of Chunavia (1975.01.07 – 1988.06.30)

Auxiliary Bishop of Hajdúdorog of the Hungarians (Hungary) (1975.01.07 – 1988.06.30)

Bishop of Hajdúdorog of the Hungarians (Hungary) (1988.06.30 – 2007.11.10)

Apostolic Exarch of Miskolc of the Hungarians (Hungary) (1988.06.30 – 2007.11.10)

Apostolic Administrator of Hajdúdorog of the Hungarians (Hungary) (2007.11.10 – 2008.05.02)

Bishop Imre Timkó
(1975.01.07 – 1988.03.30)

Born:	1920.08.13 (Budapest, Hungary)
Ordained Priest:	1945.12.08
Consecrated Bishop:	1975.02.08
Died:	1988.03.30 († 67)

Bishop of Hajdúdorog of the Hungarians (Hungary) (1975.01.07 – 1988.03.30)

Apostolic Exarch of Miskolc of the Hungarians (Hungary) (1975.01.07 – 1988.03.30)

Bishop Miklós Dudás, O.S.B.M.
(1939.03.25 – 1972.07.15)

Born:	1902.10.27 (Máriapócs, Hungary)
Ordained Priest:	1927.09.08
Consecrated Bishop:	1939.05.14
Died:	1972.07.15 († 69)

Bishop of Hajdúdorog of the Hungarians (Hungary) (1939.03.25 – 1972.07.15)

Apostolic Administrator of Mukacheve of the Ruthenians (Ukraine) (1944 – 1946)

Apostolic Exarch of Miskolc of the Hungarians (Hungary) (1946.10.14 – 1972.07.15)

Bishop Stefano Miklósy
(1913.06.23 – 1937.10.30)

Born:	1857.08.22 (Hungary)
Ordained Priest:	1884.04.17
Consecrated Bishop:	1913.10.05
Died:	1937.10.30 († 80)

Bishop of Hajdúdorog of the Hungarians (Hungary) (1913.06.23 – 1937.10.30)

Former Prelates

Auxiliary Bishop: Bishop Szilárd Keresztes (1975.01.07 – 1988.06.30)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Istenszülő Oltalma Görög katolikus székesegyház, Debrecen, Debrecen, Hajdú-Bihar
Former Cathedral: Istenszülő templomba vezetése Görög katolikus székesegyház, Hajdúdorog, Hajdú-Bihar
Jubilee Churches in the Holy Year 2025

Križevci (↙), Bratislava (←), Miskolc (↖), Nyíregyháza (↗), Oradea Mare (↘), Lugoj (↓), Saint Nicholas of Ruski Krstur (↓)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Population: 148,000 Catholics

Pastoral Centres: 60 parishes

Personnel: 93 priests (diocesan), 10 deacons, 16 seminarians

Hungarian Metropolitanate sui juris of

Hajdúdorog

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