Lajos Kada
Lajos Kada (16 November 1924 – 26 November 2001) was a Hungarian prelate of the Catholic Church who spent most of his career in the diplomatic service of the Holy See, serving also in the Roman Curia.
Biography[edit]
Lajos Kada was born in Budapest, Hungary, on 16 November 1924. He was ordained a priest on 10 October 1948.
To prepare for a diplomatic career he entered the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy in 1955.[1] He was the Academy's first Hungarian student.[citation needed] He entered the diplomatic service of the Holy See in 1957 and worked in the diplomatic missions in Pakistan, Scandinavia (based in Denmark), Germany (Bonn), and Argentina.[citation needed]
He was working at the Pontifical Council Cor Unum when, on 20 June 1975, Pope Paul VI named him a titular archbishop and Apostolic Nuncio to Costa Rica.[2] He received his episcopal consecration from Cardinal Jean-Marie Villot on 20 July 1975.[3]
On 15 October 1980, Pope John Paul II appointed him Apostolic Nuncio to El Salvador as well.[4]
On 8 April 1984, Pope John Paul moved him to the Roman Curia, naming him Secretary of the Congregation of the Sacraments.[5]
On 22 August 1991, Pope John Paul returned him to the diplomatic corps, appointing him Apostolic Nuncio to Germany.[6]
On 22 September 1995, Pope John Paul named him Apostolic Nuncio to Spain,[7] to which he added, on 8 March 1996, the responsibilities of Apostolic Nuncio to Andorra.[8] His tenure in Spain was marked by disputes with the government about religious education and church finances;[9] he made his hostility to Catalan nationalism clear as well.[10]
He retired when replaced as Apostolic Nuncio to Spain and Andorra on 1 March 2000.[11]
After years of fighting cancer, Kada died in Budapest on 26 November 2001.
References[edit]
- ^ "Pontificia Accademia Ecclesiastica, Ex-alunni 1950 – 1999" (in Italian). Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
- ^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. LXVII. 1975. pp. 463, 494. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
- ^ "Archbishop Lajos Kada [Catholic-Hierarchy]". www.catholic-hierarchy.org. Retrieved 2021-01-20.
- ^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. LXXII. 1980. p. 1069. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
- ^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. LXXVI. 1984. p. 508. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
- ^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. LXXXIII. 1991. p. 785. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
- ^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. LXXXVII. 1995. p. 920. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
- ^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. LXXXVIII. 1996. p. 358. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
- ^ Bedoya, Juan G. (17 February 2000). "El nuncio del Papa en España deja su cargo tras cumplir 75 años". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 8 December 2019.
- ^ Brassloff, Audrey (1998). Religion and Politics in Spain: The Spanish Church in Transition, 1962-96. Springer. pp. 132–3. ISBN 9780333995006. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
- ^ "Rinunce e Nomine, 01.03.2000" (Press release) (in Italian). Holy See Press Office. 1 March 2000. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
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