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