- Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Esztergom-Budapest
The Metropolitan Archdiocese of Esztergom-Budapest is part of the
Roman Catholic Church in Hungary. This Hungarianarchdiocese is rare (not unique, compare Belgium'sprimas Mechelen-Brussels ) in the sense that it represents two Hungarian cities,Esztergom and the national capitalBudapest . The two being onediocese is because inHungary 's early historyEsztergom was one of the formercapital s of the Hungarian apostolic kingdom (much larger than the present republic – roughly the eastern half of theHabsburg empire ).The
diocese was founded in the10th century . Its name was changed fromArchdiocese of Esztergom onMay 31 ,1993 . It had a uniquely prominent status, see under the title ofPrince primate .Its current
Archbishop isPéter Cardinal Erdő . He received this position when dr.László Cardinal Paskai became ArchbishopEmeritus .List of Archbishops of Esztergom
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Stefan Vancza (d. 1270)
*Johann Beckenschlager (15 Mar 1474 - 21 Mar 1487 )
*Pál Várdai (1526 - 12 Oct 1549 )
*Anton Vrancic (17 Oct 1569 - 15 Jun 1573 )
*Miklós Telegdy ( 1580 - 22 Apr 1586 )
*Péter Pázmány (28 Oct 1616 - 19 Mar 1637 )
*Leopold Karl Graf von Kollonitsch Lipót (22 Aug 1695 - 20 Jan 1707 )
*Christian August von Sachsen-Zeitz (20 Jan 1707 - 23 Aug 1725 )
*József Batthyány (20 May 1776 - 23 Oct 1799 )
*Karl Ferdinand von Habsburg (16 Mar 1808 - 2 Sep 1809 )
*Alexander Cardinal Rudnay Divékújfalusi (17 Dec 1819 - 13 Sep 1831 )
*Johannes Cardinal Scitovszky (28 Sep 1849 - 19 Oct 1866 )
*János Cardinal Simor (22 Feb 1867 - 23 Jan 1891 )
*Kolos Ferenc Cardinal Vaszary (13 Dec 1891 - 1 Jan 1913 )
*János Cardinal Csernoch (13 Dec 1912 - 25 Jul 1927 )
*Jusztinian György Cardinal Serédi (30 Nov 1927 - 29 Mar 1945 )
*József Cardinal Mindszenty (2 Oct 1945 - 18 Dec 1973 )
*László Cardinal Lékai (12 Feb 1976 - 30 Jun 1986 )Archbishops of Esztergom-Budapest
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László Cardinal Paskai (3 Mar 1987 - 7 Dec 2002 )
*Péter Cardinal Erdõ (7 Dec 2002 - )ee also
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Esztergom Basilica
*Roman Catholicism in Hungary External links
* [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06721b.htm Archdiocese of Gran] (in Catholic Encyclopedia) (not fully used here)
* [http://www.esztergomi-ersekseg.hu/ Archdiocese of Esztergom-Budapest website] (only in Hungarian)
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