Bishops of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Banská Bystrica

Bishops of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Banská Bystrica in Slovakia.

Marián Chovanec is a Slovak Roman Catholic cleric, and current bishop of the diocese of Banská Bystrica. Born September 16, 1957, in Trenčín. He studied at the Roman Catholic Theological Faculty in Bratislava and was interned for participating in a hunger strike against state interferences in the church in 1981and expelled from the seminary. He resumed studies in 1986 and in 1990 undertook further studies in the Catholic University in Lublin, Poland. In 1992 he received a licentiate in theology and in 1994 a doctorate in dogmatic theology.

Ordained a priest on June 17, 1989, he worked as a curate Nitra and in 1990 was appointed archivist for the Bishop's office in Nitra and parish administrator Nitra-Dražovce. From 2013 taught at the Theological Institute of St. Francis Xavier in Banská Bystrica-Badin.

On 22 July 1999, he appointed auxiliary bishop of Nitra by Pope John Paul II in the Cathedral of SS. Emeráma. Since August 2000, he has acted as the Secretary General of the Bishops' Conference of Slovakia and from 1 March 2003 to 14 December 2012 he was Vicar General of the Diocese of Nitra.

On November 20, 2012 Pope Benedict XVI appointed him bishop of Banská Bystrica. in the Cathedral of SS. Francis Xavier in Banská Bystrica. He is also titular bishop of Maxita (1999.07.22 – 2012.11.20)

(Apostolic Administrator 2011.07.28 – 2012.11.20)

(1990.02.14 – 2011.07.27)

Rudolf Balaz was a Roman Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Banská Bystrica.

Born in Nevoľné the youngest of six children. He studied theology at the Roman Catholic Theological Faculty in Bratislava from 1958 to 1963. Refused further education by the communists, he was ordained a priest in 1963 at the hands of Bishop Ambrose Lazik. Between 1968 and 1970 he was an actuary in the bishop's office in Banská Bystrica.

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