Mindszenty, József

Mindszenty, József
orig. Pehm József

born March 29, 1892, Csehimindszent, near Szombathely, Austria-Hungary
died May 6, 1975, Vienna, Austria

Hungarian cardinal who opposed fascism and communism.

Ordained a priest in 1915, he was arrested as an enemy of totalitarian governments in 1919 and again in 1944. He was appointed primate of Hungary in 1945 and made a cardinal in 1946. Refusing to permit Hungary's Roman Catholic schools to be secularized by the communists, he was arrested in 1948 and convicted of treason the next year. Sentenced to life imprisonment, he was freed in the Hungarian Revolution (1956). When the communists regained control, he sought asylum in the U.S. embassy in Budapest and lived there for 15 years, refusing Vatican requests to leave Hungary. He relented in 1971, settled in Vienna, and was retired as primate of Hungary in 1974.

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▪ Hungarian bishop
original name  József Pehm 
born March 29, 1892, Csehimindszent, near Szombathely, Austria-Hungary [now in Hungary]
died May 6, 1975, Vienna, Austria

      Roman Catholic clergyman who personified uncompromising opposition to fascism and communism in Hungary for more than five decades of the 20th century.

      Politically active from the time of his ordination as a priest in 1915, Mindszenty was arrested as an enemy of totalitarian governments twice in 1919 and again in 1944, the year in which he was consecrated bishop of Veszprém. In 1945 he was appointed primate of Hungary and archbishop of Esztergom, and in 1946 he was made a cardinal.

      His refusal to permit the Roman Catholic schools of Hungary to be secularized prompted the communist government to arrest him in 1948 and convict him in 1949 on charges of treason. Sentenced to life imprisonment, he was set free during the uprising of 1956 and, when the communist government regained control, he sought asylum in the U.S. embassy in Budapest. He spent 15 years in voluntary confinement there, rejected requests from the Vatican to leave Hungary, and relented only in 1971, at the entreaty of the U.S. president Richard M. Nixon. As the guest of the Vatican and, after 1971, in Vienna, he criticized the pope's attempts to deal with Hungary's communist regime and in 1974 was retired from his posts as archbishop and primate. His Memoirs were published in 1974. Mindszenty was originally buried in Austria, but in 1991, after the fall of Hungary's communist government, he was reburied in the Basilica in Esztergom, Hungary.

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