Accepting the invitation of the civil and ecclesial Authorities, His Holiness Pope Francis will make an Apostolic Journey to Hungarry from 28 to 30 April this year, visiting the city of Budapest.

The members of the Hungarian Catholic Bishops’ Conference were touched to hear that Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has completed his earthly journey and returned to the house of the Heavenly Father.

“Now you are Christ’s body, and individually parts of it.” (1Cor 12:27) There are already a number of Instagram and TikTok accounts affiliated with an institution or organisational unit of the Hungarian Catholic Church, but at the beginning of Advent 2022, the central Instagram and TikTok page of the Hungarian Catholic Church was launched. On our community platforms, visitors will find

From the very beginning, the Catholic Church has been involved in the education and upbringing of young people. For centuries, this activity has been closely tied to teachers in Catholic schools writing and compiling curricula and later textbooks for each subject. Communism interrupted this historical development in Hungary. After the change of regime, pupils were again able to study from Church

Dear Brothers and Sisters!
Twenty-four years – less than a lifetime. This is all the time that was given to one of the most famous Hungarian saints, Saint Elisabeth of Hungary, the role model of those young people, mothers and widows who are ready to help. But the earthly manifestation of active love lived a full life. In the short time she had here on Earth, she was a joyful child, a loving wife and mother, a grieving widow, but above all, she helped people in need. She was someone who did the right thing with conviction and total dedication. Her sanctity of life was perfectly obvious to her contemporaries, which made it possible to canonize her only three years after her death.

The usual pastoral retreat of the Hungarian bishops is held between 14 and 18 November 2022 in Leányfalu, in the Saint Gerard House of Spiritual Retreat. This year, a total of 34 participants from dioceses in Hungary and neighbouring countries will attend the retreat. The event will be led by Carmelite monk Rafael Bakos.

The Hungarian Catholic Bishops’ Conference (HCBC) has been supporting the Sztojka Sándor Greek Catholic Lyceum in Karácsfalva (Karačín) for years. The institution plays a key role in the education and upbringing of the Hungarians living in Transcarpathia (Ukraine). The school was already in a difficult situation before the outbreak of the war, with many of its students travelling great distances and many unable to get to school on their own due to the lack of public transport.

A meeting of the presidents of the Bishops’ Conferences of Central and Eastern Europe was held in Budapest on 24-25 October 2022. The event was attended, among others, by Archbishop Gintaras Grušas of Vilnius, president of the Council of European Bishops’ Conferences (CCEE), András Veres, president of the Hungarian Catholic Bishops’ Conference, Cardinal Mario Grech, general secretary of the Synod of Bishops, Apostolic Nuncio Michael Wallace Banach, and the members of the Permanent Council of the Hungarian Catholic Bishops’ Conference: Cardinal Péter Erdő, Archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest, Archbishop György Udvardy of Veszprém and Bishop János Székely of Szombathely, as well as the presidents and representatives of the Bishops’ Conferences of Slovakia, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and the International Bishops’ Conference of Saint Cyril and Methodius including Serbia and other states.

Cardinal Mario Grech, general secretary of the Synod of Bishops visited Hungary. He is the coordinator, on behalf of the Holy Father, of the synodal process, which began in 2021. Last Sunday, Pope Francis announced that – given the importance of the topic – the closing phase of the synod will be held in two parts, in October 2023 and 2024, in the framework of the Synod of Bishops in Rome.

The permanent councils of the episcopal conferences of Romania and Hungary held a joint meeting in Oradea on 26-27 September 2022, as guests of the local Latin bishop. The discussion focused on the synodal journey in the universal Church initiated by the Holy Father, Pope Francis, the 52nd International Eucharistic Congress in Budapest, help provided for war refugees, youth and education,