18 May |
State Church Office is set up. |
June |
The State Church Office appoints commissioners in every
diocese to ensure the realisation of government policy on the Church.
Beginning of June Arrest of József Grósz,
Archbishop of Kalocsa, and eight others. He is replaced by Gyula
Czapik, Archbishop of Eger, as president of the bishops' conference. |
3
July |
Decree stating that main Church posts (archbishop, bishop,
assistant bishop, abbot, provincial) can only be filled with the
preliminary agreement of the Presidential Council. |
3 July |
The bishops' conference issues a statement declaring
its "solidarity" with the Acts of the People's Republic and its
agreement with the "Priests' Peace Movement". |
21 July |
Bishops, assistant bishops etc. take an oath in
Parliament on the Constitution of the Hungarian People's. Republic;
except for Imre Kisberk, assistant bishop of
Székesfehérvár. |
28 July |
Supreme Court sentences Archbishop Grósz to
15 years imprisonment, his associates to 8-13 years. |
July-August |
Commissioners of the State Church Office appoint
so-called "peace priests" (see above 1 August 1950) to be vicars and
secretaries in the dioceses. |
7 August |
The bishops' conference decides to give ail Church
lands to the state by 1 September. |
4 September |
Ecclesia co-operative has its first meeting. During the
year Regnum Marianum parish church is pulled down beside the
Városliget to make room for state festivals. |