1987

19 February Prime Minister GyörgyLázár receives a private audience with the Pope.
2 March A new pastoral letter of the bishops' conference isread 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 ofPécs, dies at the age of 76.
2 July The Pastoral Committee of the bishops' conferenceissues a pastoral letter on the particular importance of pastoral workwith families.
5-6 September Cardinal Simon Loudasamy, prefect of the Congregationof Eastern Churches, celebrates Mass in Hajdúdorog on the75th anniversary of the foundation of the diocese.
September Number of seminarists at the beginning of the schoolyear 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 toJohn Paul II.
1 December First official meeting of the Hungarian bishops'conference with the Ecumenical Council of Hungarian Churches. A jointstatement is made on ecumenism.

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