Archdiocese of Eger
The Archdiocese of Eger is a Latin Church archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Northern Hungary. Its centre is the city of Eger.
History
- 1000: Established as Diocese of Eger
- August 9, 1804: Promoted as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Eger with four suffragan dioceses: Satu Mare, Spiš, Košice and Rožňava
(Metropolitan Cathedral Basilica of St. John the Apostle and Evangelist, St. Michael and the Immaculate Conception)]
- 1993: It received two new suffragan dioceses, Debrecen-Nyíregyháza and Vác
Ordinaries, in reverse chronogical order
Archbishops of Eger
- Csaba Ternyák
- István Seregély
- László Kádár, O. Cist.
- József Bánk
- Pál Brezanóczy
- Gyula Czapik
- Lajos Szmrecsányi
- József Samassa
- Béla Bartakovics
- Ladislaus Pyrker, O.Cist.
- István Fisher
- Ferenc Fuchs
Bishops of Eger
- Tamás Pálffy
- Benedict Kisdy
- György Jakusics
- György Lippay
- István Szuhay
- Antal Verancsics, appointed Archbishop of Esztergom
- Ferenc Ujlaky
- Pál Várdai
- Tamás Bakócz, appointed Archbishop of Esztergom and later Latin Patriarch of Constantinople
- Ascanio Sforza
- Johann Beckenschlager
- Michael Szécsényi
- Nicholas Dörögdi
- Csanád Telegdi, appointed Archbishop of Esztergom
- Martin
- Andrew
- Lampert Hont-Pázmány
- Cletus Bél
- Thomas, appointed Archbishop of Esztergom
- Chama, appointed Archbishop of Kalocsa
- Lucas, appointed Archbishop of Esztergom
- Martyrius, appointed Archbishop of Esztergom