| 1 January | The Pope's New Year Address to the Hungarian people |
| 14 January | The Highest Court rehears the process carried againstthe Regnum Marianum clerical community in 1965 and finds the judgmentunlawful even on the basis of the constitution of the day. Hungarian president ÁrpádGöncz presents his respects to Pope John-Paul II in a letterthanking him simultaneously for his message addressed to the world'speoples and governments on the occasion of Peace Year 1991.Mr.Göncz affirms also that the whole Hungarian people islooking forward to the Pope's visit in August. |
| 15 February | Foundation of the Hungarian Catholic Journalists'Association |
| 1-6 April | The first congress of the Hungarian Pax Romana held inHungary again in Győr and Pannonhalma (33rd in order) |
| 9 April | Opening of the Saint Ignatius Catholic Students' Hallof the Jesuit Order |
| 12 April | Prime Minister József Antal receives PapalNuncio Angelo Acerbi in his office. The talks concern the relationshipof the Holy See and the Hungarian Republic as well as the settling ofthe question of confiscated church properties. |
| 4 May | Mons. József Mindszenthy's mortal remainsare ceremoniously transferred from Mariazell (Austria) to Esztergom andare put to their last repose in the crypt of the basilica. |
| 24 May | Pope John-Paul II receives Hungarian Secretary forForeign Affairs Géza Jeszenszky in private audience. |
| 28 May | It is decided that the faculty of Arts of the futureCatholic University will function on the premises of the former sovietbarracks in Piliscsaba. |
| 5 July | Pope John-Paul II receives Reformed Bishop ofNagyvárad (Oradea, Rumania) LászlóTőkés in private audience. |
| 10 July | The Parliament passes the law concerning therestitution of church properties by a roll-call vote. In virtue of thislaw the premises confiscated unlawfully from the church or theirequivalent 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-airmass in Esztergom, Máriapócs, Pécs andBudapest, an ecumenical divine service in Debrecen, a meeting with theHungarian youth in the People's Stadium (Budapest), another with theseminarists in the Matthias Church (Budapest), yet another with thesick in the Basilica of Budapest, and he also met the representativesof the sciences and the arts, as well as a delegation of Jewishreligious communities. Approximately 200 000 people participate at hismass celebrated on the Heroes' Square (Budapest) on St Stephen's Feast.The Pope in his sermon touches the coup d' état committedagainst Mr Gorbatchev the day before and expresses his hope that theevolution of democracy can in no way be stopped in Russia. |
| 4 September | Foundation of the Hungarian Association for thePastorization of Prisons at Szeged |
| 14 September | Establishment of the university students' parish inBudapest |
| 15 September | First national meeting of the Hungarian Charity inBudapest |
| 23 November | Pope John-Paul II receives the participants of theChristian Democratic Leaders' International Forum, among them HungarianPrime Minister József Antall and the other members of theHungarian delegation. |
| 4 December | Inauguration of the Villa di Fracno, the residence ofthe Hungarian Embassy at the Holy See, former building of the HungarianConsulate. In the course of the ceremony Hungarian Under-Secretary ofState for Foreign Affairs Tamás Katona hands over the GreatCross of the Hungarian State Order of Merit to Cardinal SodanoUnder-Secretary of State. |
| 30 December | The Community of Taizé organizes its 14thEuropean Youth Meeting in Budapest. |
