Hungarian Greek Catholic Church

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Greek Catholic Church in Hungary
Congregation for the Oriental Churches
RegionHungary
LiturgyByzantine Rite
HeadquartersDebrecen, Hungary[1]
Origin8 June 1912
Hungary
Congregations187[2]
Members326,200[2]
Official websitegorogkatolikus.hu
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The Hungarian Greek Catholic Church

liturgical usage is that of the Byzantine Rite in the Hungarian language
.

History

Hungarians joined the Greek Catholic Church, and so adopted the Byzantine Rite rather than the Latin, which resulted in a considerable increase in their number.[5]

Perhaps largely because of this last element, Byzantine Hungarians began to use the Hungarian language in their liturgy. A translation of the Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom for private study was published in 1795. A book containing the parts of the liturgy that the people sing appeared in 1862. Representatives of 58 Hungarian-speaking parishes met in 1868 and set up an organization to promote the liturgical use of the Hungarian language and the establishment of a separate eparchy. 1882 saw the publication, without formal ecclesiastical approval, of a Hungarian translation of the Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom for actual use, which was soon followed by Hungarian translations of other liturgical texts.[citation needed]

Sui iuris

Finally, on 8 June 1912, Pope Pius X established the Eparchy of Hajdúdorog[6][7] for the 162 Hungarian-speaking Greek Catholic parishes. He limited the use of Hungarian to non-liturgical functions, requiring the clergy to use Greek in the liturgy, but granted an interval of three years for the change of language to be effected. Because of the outbreak of the First World War, this interval was prolonged indefinitely, and use of Hungarian has continued.[citation needed]

The change of national frontiers after the First World War led to the reduction of the territory of the Eparchy of Hajdúdorog from the 168 parishes to which it had grown to only 90. Within Hungary there were also 21 parishes of the Eparchy of Prešov and one of the Eparchy of Mukačevo. On 4 June 1924, these were brought together as the new Exarchate of Miskolc,[8][9] at first - because at that time they still used Church Slavonic in the liturgy - classified as Ruthenian, but now considered part of the Hungarian Greek Catholic Church.[citation needed]

The church was in a unique position under the

Soviet Ukraine, it was neither outlawed nor especially targeted for persecution. Factors for this relative leniency include the church's small size, its poverty (northeast Hungary, where its adherents are concentrated, has historically been the country's poorest area) as well as the near absence of an Orthodox church into which Greek Catholics could have been forced to merge.[10]

The territory of the eparchy at first corresponded to that of the Latin Church Archdiocese of Eger in eastern Hungary and Budapest. But its jurisdiction was extended on 17 July 1980 to the whole of Hungary.[citation needed]

On 20 March 2015,

suffragans of the Hajdúdorog see.[11]

A small number of Hungarian Greek Catholics have emigrated to North America, where their few parishes are under the jurisdiction of the

diocesan priests are married.[13]

Structure

The Hungarian Greek Catholic Church comprises a single ecclesiastical province, which consists of the metropolitan archeparchy and two suffragan eparchies:

Greek Catholic eparchs (bishops) are members of the (mainly Latin) episcopal conference of Hungary.[citation needed]

See also

Notes

  1. Latin
    : Ecclesia Graeco-Catholica Hungariae

References

  1. ^ a b "Ferenc pápa megalapította a Hajdúdorogi Metropóliát" (in Hungarian). Hungarian Catholic Church website. 20 March 2015. Retrieved 21 March 2015.
  2. ^ a b Roberson, Ronald G. "The Eastern Catholic Churches 2014" (PDF). Eastern Catholic Churches Statistics. Catholic Near East Welfare Association. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 August 2014. Retrieved 21 March 2015.
  3. ^ "Metropolitanate of Hajdúdorog". GCatholic. Retrieved 25 May 2023.
  4. ^ "Metropolitan Archeparchy of Hajdúdorog".
  5. ^ Magyar Katolikus Lexikon (Hungarian Catholic Lexicon): Görögkatolikusok (Greek Catholics) [1]
  6. ^ Cheney, David M. "Diocese of Hajdúdorog". All Dioceses. catholic-hierarchy.org. Retrieved 10 January 2012.
  7. ^ "Diocese of Hajdúdorog". Catholic Dioceses in the World. GCatholic.org. Retrieved 10 January 2012.
  8. ^ Cheney, David M. "Apostolic Exarchate of Miskolc". All Dioceses. catholic-hierarchy.org. Retrieved 10 January 2012.
  9. ^ "Apostolic Exarchate of Miskolc". Catholic Dioceses in the World. GCatholic. Retrieved 10 January 2012.
  10. ISBN 978-1-315-81903-7
  11. ^ "Pope raises Byzantine-rite Hungarian Catholic Church to status of sui juris metropolitan see | News Headlines".
  12. ^ Roberson, Ronald G. "The Hungarian Catholic Church. Page 2". Eastern Catholic Churches. Catholic Near East Welfare Association. Retrieved 28 December 2011.
  13. ISBN 978-1-4443-3361-9
    .

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