Dionisije Njaradi (10 October 1874 – 14 April 1940) was a Yugoslavian

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hierarch of Rusyn origin. He was auxiliary bishop (as

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of Abila Lysaniae) and

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from 1914 to 1920 (until 1917 '' sede plena'') and bishop from 1920 to 1940 of the

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and Apostolic Administrator of Slovak Catholic Eparchy of Prešov from 1922 to 1927.

Biography

Born in

Ruski Krstur Ruski Krstur (Serbian Cyrillic: Руски Крстур; Rusyn: Руски Керестур) is a village in Vojvodina, Serbia. It is located in the municipality of Kula, West Bačka District. The village has a Rusyn ethnic majority. Its popul ...

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(present day

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) in 1874, he was

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on 1 January 1899 for the

. Fr. Njaradi was the Rector of the Greek Catholic Seminary in Zagreb from 1902 to 1914. He was appointed the Titular Bishop of Abila Lysaniae and Apostolic Administrator by the

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on 5 December 1914. He was consecrated to the

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on 9 January 1915. The principal

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was Bishop

Lazar Mladenov Lazar Mladenov ( bg, Лазар Димитров Младенов) (July 11, 1854 – March 4, 1918) was a Bulgarian Orthodox priest and, later, a member of the Bulgarian Uniat Church in the Ottoman Empire and a convert to Eastern Catholicism. ...

, and the principal co-consecrators were Archbishop Pierre Kojunian and Bishop Nematallah Carame. He died in Mrzlo Polje Žumberačko on 14 April 1940 while making a pastoral visit in the Žumberak mountains.About the circumstances of bishop Njaradis dead in Mrzlo Polje (Žumberačko) – in Croatian
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