Papal decision on Hajdudorog Metropolitan’s establishment announced at ceremony

Budapest, March 23 (MTI) – A ceremony was held on Monday in the Greek Catholic Church of Hajdudorog in north-eastern Hungary to celebrate the church’s elevation by the pope to a Metropolitan.

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The decision made by Pope Francis on March 20 about the church’s new status was announced by Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches, following a holy mass celebrated in the church before hundreds of faithful.

According to the provisions posted online by Radio Vatican, the pope “has elevated the Eparchy of Hajdudorog for the Catholics of Byzantine Rite to a Metropolitan See, with a seat at Debrecen, and has nominated Bishop Fulop Kocsis, until now Eparchal Bishop of Hajdudorog, as first Metropolitan.”

The ceremony in Hajdudorog was attended by Apostolic Nuncio Alberto Bottari de Castello and Hungarian catholic leader Cardinal Peter Erdo, as well as Miklos Sesztak, the national development minister, and Miklos Soltesz, the human resources ministry’s state secretary in charge of church relations, representing the Hungarian government.

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Source: http://mtva.hu/hu/hungary-matters