László Német

Nemet was born in Odžaci, Serbia and graduated from high school in Subotica. In 1977 he entered the Society of the Divine Word (Societas Verbi Divini). He undertook higher religious, philosophical, and theological studies in Poland.

On September 8, 1982 he was ordained as a monk, and on April 17, 1983 at the same place ordained a priest. Between 1983 and 1985, he worked in Yugoslavia, and until 1987 he studied in Rome. From 1987 to 1990, he was a university chaplain in the Philippines, and from 1993 he taught in the college order in Poland.

In 1994, he earned a doctorate in dogmatics at Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.

Then until 2000, he taught dogmatics in Austria at the Mödling Philosophical-Theological College. From 2000 until 2004, he served the international organizations operating under the Holy See's Permanent Representation in Vienna.

From 2004 to 2007, he served as Provincial of the Hungarian Province of the Society of the Divine Word. On July 15, 2006 he served at the Hungarian Catholic Bishops' Conference, elected secretary. In addition to teaching in 1996 in Zagreb, the Jesuit Faculty of Philosophy, and since 2002 the monastic Sapientia College of Theology held at the Department of Fundamental missiology courses.

Nemet is the author of several books and essays. On April 23, 2008 Pope Benedict XVI appointed him diocesan bishop of Zrenjanin. He was consecrated bishop on July 5, 2008 at the Cathedral of Zrenjanin. He speaks Hungarian, Serbo-Croatian, English, German, Polish and Italian.

• Bishop Ladislav Nemet, S.V.D. - Catholic Hierarchy
• Diocese of Zrenjanin, Serbia - GCatholic
• Wayback Machine - Zrenjanin's Diocese (captured Jan 01, 2010)