| 1 February |
The national assembly declares Hungary a republic
which puts an end to the special political status of the Church: |
| 18 February |
Pius XII appoints József Mindszenty
Cardinal. |
| 4 May |
The bishops' conference issues a pastoral letter in
defence of Catholic schools and religious education. |
| 26 June |
There had been 52 grammar-schools, 20 technical
secondary schools, 35 colleges and 3000 primary schools run by the
Church in the previous school year. |
| 4 July |
László Rajk, Minister of the
Interior, bans first the Hungarian Boy Scout Movement and later the
National Society of Young Catholic Farmers and other organisations. 20
July The bishops' conference protests officially against the
dissolution of Catholic organisations. |
| 20 August |
Crowds take part in the procession with the holy relic
of St. Steven's right hand (see above 19-20 August 1945). |
| September |
28,000 students register for Catholic schools for the
1946-47 school year, a few thousand more than the previous year. |
| 7-8 September |
József Mindszenty and Gyula Czapik,
Archbishop of Eger, deliver a speech in Máriapócs
at the festival of the Hungarian Greek Catholics. |
| 17 November |
Deportation of Hungarians in Slovakia starts. People
forced to move to the Sudeten, where Germans were expatriated from. |
