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Bálint Imre, Dr.

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Deceased

Birth data:: Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, currently Ukraine — 1912
Death data:: 1999
Denomination:: Roman Catholic
Ecclesiastical status:: diocesan
Diocese / Order:: Moreno (ma: Merlo-Moreno), Argentína

Ordination level:: deacon
Ordination to the diaconate:: 1980

Biographical data

From 1936, he was a student at Pázmány Péter University. On the advice of Tihamér Tóth, he did not choose the priesthood, but he still felt a calling to pastoral work. During World War II, he served on the Russian front and then spent three years in a British prisoner-of-war camp.

He lived in Argentina starting in 1948. He was ordained a permanent deacon in 1980. As the founder of the so-called “mobile mission” of the Hungarian community in Argentina, he traveled by car to visit the communities and preach to them there.

Foreign service locations

From	To	Place	Country	Church / institution	Position
1980	?		Argentína		Ven y Ven – Mobile Chapel - Deacon

Literary activity

Székelyek (1936);
Magyarország nem hal meg! (1956);
Egy diakónus kalandjai és vallomásai (Katolikus Magyarok Vasárnapja, 1992);
Számos könyvet jelentetett meg spanyol nyelven is.
Rendszeresen publikált a Katolikus Magyarok Vasárnapja, valamint az Amerikai Magyar Szó c. hetilapokban.

Life timeline

Birth

1912

Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, currently Ukraine

Service abroad

1980 – ?

Argentína

Ven y Ven – Mobile Chapel - Deacon

Ordination to the diaconate

1980

Death

1999

Sources

Miklósházy Attila SJ.: Vázlatok és adalékok a külföldi római katolikus magyar lelkipásztorkodás történetéhez, MEV 13., 2001/1–2., 223-262.
Rónay László: Kulturális krónika (szemle), Új forrás, 1992. december 1, 80p.
Molnár Gábor: Magyar hősök Latin-Amerikában a XX. században (1936–1997 között), MEV 2004/1–2., 217-241.

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Bálint Imre, Dr.: personal record. In: Historical directory of Hungarian, Hungarian-descended, and Hungarian-speaking clergy serving abroad. Available at: https://www.diaszporalelkipasztorok.hu/persons_v2/view.php?id=57 (accessed: 2026-04-05).