Dominik Kalata

Dominik Kalata, SJ, (19 May 1925 in Nowa Biała – 23 August 2018) was a Slovakian Roman Catholic prelate, who served as a titular bishop of Semta.[1] Kalata was ordained as a Catholic priest on August 12, 1951 and clandestinely as bishop on September 9, 1955 by Ján Chryzostom Korec, SJ,[1] because of the Communist Government of Czechoslovakia and the persecution of the Roman Catholic Church by the government. On March 16, 1985 he was appointed as titular bishop.[1]

Bishop Dominik Kalata in 1999

Kalata died on August 23, 2018 in Ivanka pri Dunaji, Slovakia.[2]

See also
  • List of oldest Catholic bishops

References
  1. "Bishop Dominik Kalata". Catholic Hierarchy. Retrieved 2016-01-18.
  2. "Früherer slowakischer Geheimbischof Dominik Kalata gestorben". www.kathpress.at (in German). Retrieved 2018-08-26.
Catholic Church titles
Preceded by
Sergio Otoniel Contreras Navia		 Titular Bishop of Semta
1985–2018		 Succeeded by
Juan Gómez


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