Ján Chryzostom Korec, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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slovak jesuit, cardinal and writer
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Place of Birth: Bošany, Trenčín Region, Slovakia
About Ján Chryzostom Korec
- Ján Chryzostom Korec, SJ (22 January 1924 – 24 October 2015) was a Slovak Jesuit priest and a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
- He was ordained a priest in 1950 and consecrated bishop in 1951.
- Because of government suppression of the Catholic Church, he spent 39 years working as a priest without government authorization, either in prison or supporting himself as a laborer.In 1990 Pope John Paul II named him Bishop of Nitra and in 1991 named him a cardinal.
- Korec retired in 2005 and died in 2015.
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