| 19 February |
Prime Minister György
Lázár receives a private audience with the Pope. |
| 2 March |
A new pastoral letter of the bishops' conference is
read out in churches to start the parish renewal. |
| 3. March |
John Paul appoints László Paskai
(assistant bishop of Kalocsa) Archbishop of Esztergom. |
| 23 May |
Gellért Bellon, assistant bishop of
Pécs, dies at the age of 76. |
| 2 July |
The Pastoral Committee of the bishops' conference
issues a pastoral letter on the particular importance of pastoral work
with families. |
| 5-6 September |
Cardinal Simon Loudasamy, prefect of the Congregation
of Eastern Churches, celebrates Mass in Hajdúdorog on the
75th anniversary of the foundation of the diocese. |
| September |
Number of seminarists at the beginning of the school
year 1987-88: 268 secular, 63 in male orders and 12 in female orders. |
| 9-13 November |
Hungarian bishops go to Rome on an ad limina visit to
John Paul II. |
| 1 December |
First official meeting of the Hungarian bishops'
conference with the Ecumenical Council of Hungarian Churches. A joint
statement is made on ecumenism. |
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