1946
2006. július 4., kedd 12:30
| 1 February | The national assembly declares Hungary a republicwhich puts an end to the special political status of the Church: |
| 18 February | Pius XII appoints József MindszentyCardinal. |
| 4 May | The bishops' conference issues a pastoral letter indefence of Catholic schools and religious education. |
| 26 June | There had been 52 grammar-schools, 20 technicalsecondary schools, 35 colleges and 3000 primary schools run by theChurch in the previous school year. |
| 4 July | László Rajk, Minister of theInterior, bans first the Hungarian Boy Scout Movement and later theNational Society of Young Catholic Farmers and other organisations. 20July The bishops' conference protests officially against thedissolution of Catholic organisations. |
| 20 August | Crowds take part in the procession with the holy relicof St. Steven's right hand (see above 19-20 August 1945). |
| September | 28,000 students register for Catholic schools for the1946-47 school year, a few thousand more than the previous year. |
| 7-8 September | József Mindszenty and Gyula Czapik,Archbishop of Eger, deliver a speech in Máriapócsat the festival of the Hungarian Greek Catholics. |
| 17 November | Deportation of Hungarians in Slovakia starts. Peopleforced to move to the Sudeten, where Germans were expatriated from. |
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