The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Košice is a Roman Catholic archdiocese in eastern Slovakia

Slovakia

The Slovak Republic is a landlocked state in Central Europe. It has a population of over five million and an area of about . Slovakia is bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south...

, with its seat in Košice

Košice

Košice is a city in eastern Slovakia. It is situated on the river Hornád at the eastern reaches of the Slovak Ore Mountains, near the border with Hungary...

. It covers central and eastern parts of the Prešov

Prešov Region

The Prešov Region is one of the eight Slovak administrative regions. It consists of 13 districts.-Geography:It is located in north-eastern Slovakia and has an area of 8,975 km². The region has diverse types of landscapes occurring in Slovakia, but mostly highlands and hilly lands dominate the...

 and Košice

Košice Region

The Košice Region is one of the eight Slovak administrative regions. It consists of 11 districts .-Geography:It is located in the southern part of eastern Slovakia and covers an area of 6,752 km²...

 regions, with an area of 10,403 km². On that area, there was a population of around 1,118,000 people, of which around 60% were of Catholic faith (2004). The Archbishop-elect is the former auxiliary bishop, Bernard Bober, he succeeds Alojz Tkáč

Alojz Tkác

Monsignor Alojz Tkáč was the first archbishop of the Košice Episcopal see , nowadays archbishop emeritus.He is a "golden" blood-donor .- References :...

.

History

It was first created in 1804 under name Diocese of Košice as a suffragan to the Archdiocese of Eger

Archdiocese of Eger

The Archdiocese of Eger is an archdiocese 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-Leadership:* Archbishops of Eger...

. In 1977, the metropolitan was changed to the newly-established ecclesiastical province of Trnava. On 31 March 1995, a new ecclesiastical province

Ecclesiastical Province

An ecclesiastical province is a large jurisdiction of religious government, so named by analogy with a secular province, existing in certain hierarchical Christian churches, especially in the Catholic Church and Orthodox Churches and in the Anglican Communion...

 was created, changing the status of the diocese into archdiocese with the suffragans of Spiš and Rožňava.

Ordinaries

• Andrej (André) Szabó † (20 Aug 1804 Appointed - 28 Sep 1819 Died)
• Stefan (István) Cech (Csech) † (8 Jan 1821 Appointed - 4 Jun 1831 Died)
• Imrich Palugyay † ( 1830 Appointed - 13 Feb 1839 Appointed, Bishop of Nitra)
• Anton Ocskay † (18 Aug 1839 Ordained Bishop - 11 Sep 1848 Died)
• Jozef Kunszt † (20 May 1850 Appointed - 15 Mar 1852 Appointed, Archbishop of Kalocsa)
• Ignác Fábry † (15 Mar 1852 Appointed - 26 Jun 1867 Died)
• Ján Perger † (13 Mar 1868 Appointed - 5 Apr 1876 Died)
• Konštantín Schuster † (1 Jul 1877 Appointed - 1886 Appointed, Bishop of Vác)
• Zigmund Bubics † (30 May 1887 Appointed - Oct 1906 Retired)
• Augustín Fischer-Colbrie † (6 Aug 1906 Succeeded - 17 May 1925 Died)
• Stefan Madarász † (19 Jul 1939 Appointed - 8 Aug 1948 Died)
• Alojz Tkáč (14 Feb 1990 Appointed - 4 Jun 2010 Retired)
• Bernard Bober (4 Jun 2010 Appointed - )