Péter Pázmány
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His Eminence Péter Pázmány S.J. |
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| Cardinal Archbishop of Esztergom Prince Primate of Hungary |
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| See | Esztergom |
| Appointed | 28 November 1616 |
| Term ended | 19 March 1637 |
| Predecessor | Ferenc Forgách |
| Successor | Imre Lósy |
| Other posts |
Cardinal Priest of the Church of Saint Jerome of the Croats (1632-1637), Provost of Turóc (1616) |
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| Ordination | 1596 |
| Consecration | 12 March 1617 by Cardinal Melchior Klesl |
| Created Cardinal | 19 November 1629 |
| Rank | Cardinal Priest |
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| Born |
October 4, 1570 Nagyvárad, Principality of Transylvania |
| Died | March 19, 1637 (aged 66) Pozsony, Royal Hungary |
| Buried | St. Martin's Cathedral, Bratislava, Slovakia |
| Nationality | Hungarian |
| Parents | Miklós Pázmány Margit Massai |
| Alma mater |
University of Vienna & Pontifical Gregorian University |
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Péter Pázmány, S.J. (also called de Panasz in some sources; Hungarian: panaszi Pázmány Péter, pronounced [ˈpɒnɒsi ˈpaːzmaːɲ ˈpeːtɛr]; Latin: Petrus Pazmanus; German: Peter Pazman; Slovak: Peter Pázmaň; 4 October 1570 – 19 March 1637), was a Hungarian Jesuit who was a noted philosopher, theologian, cardinal, pulpit orator and statesman. He was an important figure in the Counter-Reformation in Royal Hungary.
Pázmány's most important legacy was his creation of the Hungarian literary language. As an orator he was dubbed "the Hungarian Cicero in the purple". In 1867, a street in Vienna, the Pazmanitengasse, was named after him.
Pázmány was born in 1570 in Nagyvárad, in the Principality of Transylvania (today Oradea, Romania), the son of Miklós Pázmány, vice-ispán of Bihar County. As a young he was educated there and, under the Jesuits, in Kolozsvár (Cluj), which is where he converted from the Calvinist Reformed Church of Hungary to Roman Catholicism in 1583, partly under the influence of his stepmother, a Catholic. In 1587 he entered the Society of Jesus.
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