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Hegyi Márton SJ

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Birth data:: Hódmezővásárhely, Kingdom of Hungary, currently Hungary — October 15, 1932
Death data:: New York, NY, USA — January 17, 2014
Denomination:: Roman Catholic
Ecclesiastical status:: religious
Diocese / Order:: jezsuita (Societas Jesu)

Ordination level:: priest
Entry into religious life:: March 1, 1952
Perpetual vows:: December 18, 1973
Priestly ordination:: Toronto, ON, Canada — June 16, 1963
Place of burial:: Jesuit Cemetery
Auriesville, NY, USA — January 21, 2014

Biographical data

After graduating from high school, he studied at the seminary in Szeged in 1951–52, then entered the Society of Jesus. On March 1, 1952, he was drafted into military service, which he completed as a MUSZOS in Mátyásföld, alongside Attila Miklósházy. In 1956, he left the country. He took his vows in Sankt Andrä, Austria, in 1957. He completed his philosophical studies at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, where he earned a licentiate in philosophy in 1959. His superiors sent him to Canada to study theology, and he earned his STL and MA degrees in theology at Regis College in Toronto in 1963. He was ordained a priest in Toronto on June 16, 1963, by Archbishop Philip Pocock. He earned an MA in zoology from Oxford University in 1967, followed by a PhD in ecology from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville in 1972. He was considered an outstanding professor who was very approachable to his students. In 1996, he received the “Arts & Sciences Faculty Day Teaching Awards” from Fordham College at Rose Hill for his decades of service in the Department of Biological Sciences. Due to poor health, he was admitted to the infirmary at Murray-Weigel Hall in 2008. After a long illness, he died there on January 17, 2014. He was buried on January 21 at the Jesuit Cemetery in Auriesville, NY.

Foreign service locations

From	To	Place	Church / institution	Position
1957		Sankt Andrä, Austria		vows
1957	1959	Róma, Italy	Pontificia Università Gregoriana	pursuing studies
1959	1963	Toronto, ON, Canada	Szent Erzsébet R. K. Egyházközség	pursuing studies
1963	1964	Cleveland, OH, USA		third
1965	1967	Oxford, United Kingdom		pursuing studies
1968	1969	New York, NY, USA	Fordhan Egyetem	professor of biology, a member of the provincial society
1970	1973	Kroxville, TN, USA	University of Tennesse	pursuing studies
1974	2008	New York, NY, USA	Fordhan Egyetem	Professor of biology; retired since 2003, but still teaches. Currently serving as an assistant pastor in Passaic, NJ, and Yorkers, NJ
2008	2014	New York, NY, USA	Murray-Weigel Hall	on sick leave

Literary activity

Aspects of the Anatomy of the Jelly Coat of Holopedium and Certain other Cladoceraus (Crustacia). New York, 1987. Írói neve: Martin Aloysius Hegyi

Life timeline

Birth

October 15, 1932

Hódmezővásárhely, Kingdom of Hungary, currently Hungary

Entry into religious life

March 1, 1952

Service abroad

1957

Sankt Andrä, Austria

vows

Service abroad

1957 – 1959

Róma, Italy

Pontificia Università Gregoriana

pursuing studies

Service abroad

1959 – 1963

Toronto, ON, Canada

Szent Erzsébet R. K. Egyházközség

pursuing studies

Priestly ordination

June 16, 1963

Toronto, ON, Canada

Service abroad

1963 – 1964

Cleveland, OH, USA

third

Service abroad

1965 – 1967

Oxford, United Kingdom

pursuing studies

Service abroad

1968 – 1969

New York, NY, USA

Fordhan Egyetem

professor of biology, a member of the provincial society

Service abroad

1970 – 1973

Kroxville, TN, USA

University of Tennesse

pursuing studies

Perpetual vows

December 18, 1973

Service abroad

1974 – 2008

New York, NY, USA

Fordhan Egyetem

Professor of biology; retired since 2003, but still teaches. Currently serving as an assistant pastor in Passaic, NJ, and Yorkers, NJ

Service abroad

2008 – 2014

New York, NY, USA

Murray-Weigel Hall

on sick leave

Death

January 17, 2014

New York, NY, USA

Sources

MKL: Hegyi;
http://arckepcsarnok.jezsuita.hu/hegyi-marton/✓
KMVÉ: 1968-1989;
Bikfalvi: 87.;
https://leveltar.jezsuita.hu/index.php/hu/node/2151✓

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Hegyi Márton SJ: 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=378 (accessed: 2026-09-13).

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