Word: esztergom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Price to Pay. The leftward step seemed to be the naming of Father Gyorgy Zemplen, 63, as auxiliary bishop to the apostolic administrator of Eszter-gom. Esztergom, which includes part of Budapest, is the old metropolitan see of Jozsef Cardinal Mindszenty, now largely ignored in his self-imposed exile at the U.S. embassy - and Zemplen is known to have friendly relations with the Kadar government...
...alive have suffered more for their God and their convictions than Josef Cardinal Mindszenty. 71. Archbishop of Esztergom and Roman Catholic Primate of Hungary. During World War II, he was jailed by the Nazis for protesting against the roundup of Hungary's Jews. After the war. he fought the Communist takeover of his country, and in 1949 was tried and sentenced to life imprisonment on trumped-up charges of treason, espionage and black marketing. The Western world bled for the gaunt, tortured prelate, mechanically confessing his guilt for nonexistent crimes before an unfeeling judge. Briefly freed...