| 1 January |
The Pope's New Year Address to the Hungarian people |
| 14 January |
The Highest Court rehears the process carried against
the Regnum Marianum clerical community in 1965 and finds the judgment
unlawful even on the basis of the constitution of the day.
Hungarian president Árpád
Göncz presents his respects to Pope John-Paul II in a letter
thanking him simultaneously for his message addressed to the world's
peoples and governments on the occasion of Peace Year 1991.
Mr.Göncz affirms also that the whole Hungarian people is
looking forward to the Pope's visit in August.
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| 15 February |
Foundation of the Hungarian Catholic Journalists'
Association |
| 1-6 April |
The first congress of the Hungarian Pax Romana held in
Hungary again in Győr and Pannonhalma (33rd in order) |
| 9 April |
Opening of the Saint Ignatius Catholic Students' Hall
of the Jesuit Order |
| 12 April |
Prime Minister József Antal receives Papal
Nuncio Angelo Acerbi in his office. The talks concern the relationship
of the Holy See and the Hungarian Republic as well as the settling of
the question of confiscated church properties. |
| 4 May |
Mons. József Mindszenthy's mortal remains
are ceremoniously transferred from Mariazell (Austria) to Esztergom and
are put to their last repose in the crypt of the basilica. |
| 24 May |
Pope John-Paul II receives Hungarian Secretary for
Foreign Affairs Géza Jeszenszky in private audience. |
| 28 May |
It is decided that the faculty of Arts of the future
Catholic University will function on the premises of the former soviet
barracks in Piliscsaba. |
| 5 July |
Pope John-Paul II receives Reformed Bishop of
Nagyvárad (Oradea, Rumania) László
Tőkés in private audience. |
| 10 July |
The Parliament passes the law concerning the
restitution of church properties by a roll-call vote. In virtue of this
law the premises confiscated unlawfully from the church or their
equivalent in money will be restored by the state to their original,
legal owner on request in ten years. |
| 16-20 August |
The Pope in Hungary. His program included an open-air
mass in Esztergom, Máriapócs, Pécs and
Budapest, an ecumenical divine service in Debrecen, a meeting with the
Hungarian youth in the People's Stadium (Budapest), another with the
seminarists in the Matthias Church (Budapest), yet another with the
sick in the Basilica of Budapest, and he also met the representatives
of the sciences and the arts, as well as a delegation of Jewish
religious communities. Approximately 200 000 people participate at his
mass celebrated on the Heroes' Square (Budapest) on St Stephen's Feast.
The Pope in his sermon touches the coup d' état committed
against Mr Gorbatchev the day before and expresses his hope that the
evolution of democracy can in no way be stopped in Russia. |
| 4 September |
Foundation of the Hungarian Association for the
Pastorization of Prisons at Szeged |
| 14 September |
Establishment of the university students' parish in
Budapest |
| 15 September |
First national meeting of the Hungarian Charity in
Budapest |
| 23 November |
Pope John-Paul II receives the participants of the
Christian Democratic Leaders' International Forum, among them Hungarian
Prime Minister József Antall and the other members of the
Hungarian delegation. |
| 4 December |
Inauguration of the Villa di Fracno, the residence of
the Hungarian Embassy at the Holy See, former building of the Hungarian
Consulate. In the course of the ceremony Hungarian Under-Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs Tamás Katona hands over the Great
Cross of the Hungarian State Order of Merit to Cardinal Sodano
Under-Secretary of State. |
| 30 December |
The Community of Taizé organizes its 14th
European Youth Meeting in Budapest. |
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