István Szabó [SEP] place of birth
Literature" revealed that he had been an informant of the Communist regime's secret police.
Life.
Born in Budapest, Szabó is the son of Mária (née Vita) and István Szabó, the latter of whom was a doctor from a long line of doctors. Szabó came from a family of Jews who had converted to Catholicism, but were considered Jews by the Arrow Cross Party (Hungarian Nazis). They were forced to separate and hide in Budapest sometime between October 1944, when Nazi Germany occupied Hungary and
the Archdiocese of Eger. In 1977, the metropolitan was changed to the newly established ecclesiastical province of Trnava. On 31 March 1995, a new ecclesiastical province was created, changing the status of the diocese into archdiocese with the suffragans of Spiš and Rožňava.
Ordinaries.
- András Szabó † (20 Aug 1804 Appointed - 28 Sep 1819 Died)
- István Cseh (Csech) † (8 Jan 1821 Appointed - 4 Jun 1831 Died)
- Imre Palugyay † ( 1830 Appointed - 13 Feb 1839 Appointed