About Szilárd Keresztes
Szilárd Keresztes (19 July 1932 – 13 August 2025) was a Hungarian Greek Catholic bishop. He was Bishop of Hajdúdorog and apostolic administrator of the Apostolic Exarchate of Miskolc from 1975 to 2008. == Early life == Keresztes was born in Nyíracsád, Hungary on 19 July 1932. He studied philosophy and theology between 1950 and 1955 at the Greek Catholic Major Seminary of Nyíregyháza. He was ordained priest by Bishop Miklós Dudás OSBM of Hajdúdorog in 1955. He earned a doctorate in sacred theology in 1957 at the Pázmány Péter Academy of Theology in Budapest. He served as parish pastor in Kispest, Budapest from 1957 to 1960. Between 1960 and 1970 he was associate pastor and chanter in Nyíregyháza, where he also taught philosophy, dogmatic theology and catechetics. In 1966 he won a scholarship to study at the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome, Italy as a student of the Pontifical Hungarian Institute for three years, where he obtained a licentiate in eastern theology. In 1970 he was made a canon of the Cathedral of Hajdúdorog, in 1975 parish administrator in Nyíregyháza.
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