- Imre Csáky
infobox cardinalbiog| name = Imre Cardinal Csáky †|
| See = Archdiocese of Kalocsa | Title =Cardinal priest ofSant'Eusebio ; Archbishop ofKalocsa | Period =November 19 ,1714 —August 28 ,1732 | cardinal =July 12 ,1717 | Predecessor = | Successor = | post =Bishop of Nagyvárad | date of birth = birth date|1672|10|28|mf=y | place of birth =Spiš Castle , present-daySlovakia | date of death = death date and age|1732|8|28|1672|10|28| | place of death =Oradea , present-dayRomania |Imre Csáky (
October 28 ,1672 -August 28 1732 ) was a HungarianRoman Catholic cardinal .Biography
Csáky was born in
Spiš Castle (nowadays inSlovakia ), a fief of his family. He studied inKošice ,Vienna andRome and wasordained priest, starting his eclessiastical career inEger and then in Košice andEsztergom . In 1703 he was appointedabbot of "Szent Gothárdi".On
June 25 ,1703 , he was electedbishop of Nagyvárad (presentOradea ,Romania ). OnNovember 19 ,1714 , he was promoted metropolitan archbishop of Archdiocese of Kalocsa and held the Nagyvárad diocese asapostolic administrator until his death.Csáky was created
cardinal priest "in pectore " in theconsistory ofJuly 12 ,1717 byPope Clement XI with the title ofSant'Eusebio . He took part in thePapal conclave of 1721 , but not in those of 1724 and 1730. Inquisitor General of the island ofSicily from 1723. He died in 1732 in a castle he had built near Nagyvárad.
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