A Hungarian Roman Catholic priest, catechist, and religious writer who spent the last decade and a half of his life in the United States, serving in the Diocese of Covington.

He was born on August 5, 1908, in Szelevény. Following his theological studies, he was ordained a priest on June 12, 1932, in Esztergom by József Grősz, auxiliary bishop of Győr. According to the church press of the time, he was already president of the Marian Congregation while still a seminarian. He later pursued studies at Pázmány Péter University in Budapest, where he earned a doctorate in theology on August 1, 1944.

After his ordination, he began his pastoral ministry as an assistant pastor in Endrőd, where he served from 1932 to 1938. He was then assigned to Gyula, where he also served as an assistant pastor. In 1941, he served in Debrecen as a religion teacher at the Roman Catholic girls’ high school and teacher training college, while also serving as an assistant pastor. He is listed in the school’s official bulletin among the teaching staff.

In 1942, he became an assistant pastor at the Újváros parish in Nagyvárad. During the final stages of World War II, he worked as an independent religious education teacher in Orosháza, where his only known independent work was published: *Hungarian Catholic Religious Education After the Reforms of the 1900s* (Orosháza, 1944). The volume analyzes the development of Hungarian Catholic religious education between the two world wars and the consequences of educational reforms, making it a noteworthy source for the religious education literature of that era.

In the fall of 1944, he fled from the front lines to western Hungary. According to sources, he served as a refugee pastor in Pér. Only fragmentary information has survived regarding his subsequent years; he likely left Europe during his years in exile in the West.

He is first reliably documented in the United States in 1963, when he was appointed pastor in the town of Mays Lick, Kentucky. In 1965, he was appointed to the Middlesboro parish, where he served as pastor for nearly ten years. In 1975, he became pastor of Mount Sterling, a position he held until his death. His entire ministry in the United States was with the Diocese of Covington.

He passed away on December 14, 1979, in Florence, Kentucky. He was laid to rest at the Saint Pius X Seminary Cemetery, where his grave can still be found today.

A magyar katholikus hitoktatás az ezerkilencszázas évek reformja után. Orosháza, 1944.