Chronology of Catholic Dioceses:Hungary
See a list of abbreviations used in this list. See also our listing of current ecclesial jurisdictions.
We ask our readers to kindly help ascertain the names of the 1937 Apostolic Administratures of the parts of Rosznýo/Roznava and Kassa/Kosice which remained Hungarian after 1919. We also want to ascertain when the Ap. Adm. Debrecen was incorporated into Eger or Csanad. We also wonder from where the Byzantine Rite Diocese of Hajdúdorog was detached/established. Claes.Tande@katolsk.no |
For practical reasons, this list includes also those jurisdictions which earlier were within Hungary, but now are (or would have been) in Romania, Slovakia, the Ukraine, or Yugoslavia, until the years when the areas concerned were separated from Hungary. For these countries, there are (or will soon be) complete chronologies of their own.
Those jurisdictions whose Sees are / were within the present borders of Hungary, are given in bold letters.
- 0700-0800
- Esztergom / Gran (Pannonia) - Hungary
- 0880
- Nyitra / Nitra / Neutra (established from Rome, although legends claim earlier establishment; extinct within some generations) - (Moravia) Slovakia
- 0997
- Szent Márton (Abb.) - Hungary
- 1001
- Esztergom / Gran (Metr.) - Hungary
- 1009
- Byhor / Bihar - (Hungary) Romania
- 1009
- Eger / Erlau (Lat: Agria) - Hungary
- 1009
- Erdely / Transilvania / Karlsburg / Siebenbürgen - (Hungary) Romania
- 1009
- Györ / Raab (detached from Esztergom) - Hungary
- 1009
- Pécs / Fünfkirchen - Hungary
- 1009
- Vác / Waitzen - Hungary
- 1009
- Veszprém - Hungary
- 1010
- Kalocsa (Metr.) - Hungary
- 1035
- Marosvar / Csanád - Hungary
- 1077
- Oradea Mare / Nagy Varad / Grosswardein [Lat.] (new name, See transferred from Bihar) - (Hungary) Romania
- 1105-1110
- Nyitra / Nitra / Neutra (reestablished) - (Hungary) Slovakia
- 1135
- Kalocsa-Bacs (Metr., previously Kalocsa) - Hungary
- 1200-1225~
- St. Martin (EPr) - (Hungary) Slovakia
- 1290~
- Szepes / Spis / Zips (D, for a short while, territory of St. Martin) - (Hungary) Slovakia
- 1641
- Munkacs / Mukacevo [Byz., established between 1431 and 1458 from Przemysl] becomes Catholic at the Union of Brest - (Hungary) Ukraina
- 1721
- Fogaras / Fagaras [Rom.-Byz.] - (Hungary) Romania
- 1766
- Szepes / Spis / Zips (reestablished, territory of the extinct EPr St. Martin) - (Hungary) Slovakia
- 1776
- Besztercze-Bánya / Banská Bystrica / Neusohl (detached from Esztergom) - (Hungary) Slovakia
- 1776
- Rosznýo / Roznava / Rosenau (detached from Esztergom) - (Hungary) Slovakia
- 1777
- Nagy-Varad / Oradea Mare / Grosswardein [Rom.-Byz.]] (detached from the care of the Latin diocese of Nagy-Varad / Oradea Mare) - (Hungary) Romania
- 1777
- Székesfehérvár / Stuhlweissenburg (detached from Veszprem, and from Györ)- Hungary
- 1777
- Szombathely / Steinamanger (detached from Veszprem, and from Zagreb) - Hungary
- 1804
- Eger (Metr., was part of the Metropolitan Province of Esztergom) - Hungary
- 1804
- Kassa / Kosice / Kaschau (detached from Eger) - (Hungary) Slovakia
- 1804
- Szatmár / Satu Mare (detached from Eger) - (Hungary) Romania
- 1818
- Eperjes / Presov [Byz.] (detached from Munkacs) - (Hungary) Slovakia
- 1853
- Lugoj [Rom.-Byz.]] (detached from Fagaras, and from Nagy-Varad) - (Hungary) Romania
- 1854
- Alba Julia [Rom.-Byz.]] (Metr., reerected by the Pope and immediately united to Fagaras [below]) - (Hungary) Romania
- 1854
- Fagaras and Alba Julia [Rom.-Byz.]] (Metr., and new name, previously Fagaras) - (Hungary) Romania
- 1865
- Pannonhalma (Abb., new name, previously Szent Márton, Abb.) - Hungary
- 1912
- Hajdúdorog / Hajdu Dorogh [Byz.] (erected for the Catholics of pure Greek Rite scattered through Hungary, previously under Latin dioceses) - (Austria-Hungary) Hungary
- 1923
- Miskolc [Byz.] (ApEx, detached from Eperjes, and from Munkacs) - Hungary
- 1929
- Debrecen [Lat.] (AA, detached from Nagy-Varad / Oradea Mare) - Hungary
- 1929
- Mérk [Lat.] (AA, detached from Szatmár / Satu Mare) - Hungary
- 1937
- .... [Lat.] (AA, detached from Kassa / Kosice) - Hungary
- 1937
- .... [Lat.] (AA, detached from Rosznýo / Roznava) - Hungary
- 1982
- Mérk [Lat.] (incorporated in Eger) - Hungary
- 1982
- .... [Lat.] (the 1937 AA regarding Kassa / Kosice territories, now incorporated in Eger) - Hungary
- 1982
- .... [Lat.] (the 1937 AA regarding Rosznýo / Roznava territories, now incorporated in Eger) - Hungary
- 1982
- Szeged-Csanád (new name, previously Csanád) - Hungary
- 1993
- Debrecen-Nyíregyháza (detached from Szeged-Csanád, and from Eger) - Hungary
- 1993
- Esztergom-Budapest (new name, previously Esztergom) - Hungary
- 1993
- Kalocsa-Kecskemet (new name, previously Kalocsa / Kalocsa-Bacs) - Hungary
- 1993
- Kaposvar (detached from Veszprem) - Hungary
- 1993
- Veszprém (Metr., was part of the Metropolitan Province of Esztergom) - Hungary
- 1994
- Hungary (Mil.Ord.) - Hungary
- 2015
- Hajdúdorog ( [Hung.-Byz.] Metr., for the entire Hungarian-Byzantinian Autonomous Catholic Church) - Hungary
- 2015
- Miskolc ([Hung.-Byz.] Ep., prev. ApEx.) - Hungary
- 2015
- Nyíregyháza ([Hung.-Byz.] Ep., detached from the Ep. of Hajdúdorog) - Hungary