János Simor (23 August 1813 – 23 January 1891) was a Hungarian prelate of the Catholic Church who was

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from 1867 until his death in 1891. He was previously

Bishop of Győr A bishop is an ordained member of the clergy who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance and administration of dioceses. The role ...

from 1857 to 1867. He was made a

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in 1873.

Biography

János Simor was born on 23 August 1813 in

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. He studied at the local gymnasium, the College of Bratislava, and the Seminary of

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. He earned a doctorate in theology from the University of Vienna on 8 December 1841, and continued his studies at Collegium Pazmaneum in Vienna. He was ordained a priest on 28 October 1836 and for twenty years combined pastoral work with teaching and academic administration. In 1854 Cardinal János Scitovszky dispatched him to Rome to make the case against expanding the planned Austrian concordat to include Hungary. He was named

on 19 March 1857 and received his episcopal consecration on 29 June 1857 from Scitovszky. He was promoted to Archbishop of Esztergom on 22 February 1867. On 8 June 1867, he crowned Emperor Franz Joseph with the crown of St. Stephen, the event for which he had commissioned

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to write his ''Hungarian Coronation Mass''. At the

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(1869-1870) he aligned himself with the minority who opposed the dogma of papal infallibility, though he later wrote in its defence.

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made him a cardinal priest on 22 December 1873 and he received the title of

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on 15 June 1874. He participated in the conclave of 1878 that elected

Pope Leo XIII Pope Leo XIII (; born Gioacchino Vincenzo Raffaele Luigi Pecci; 2March 181020July 1903) was head of the Catholic Church from 20 February 1878 until his death in July 1903. He had the fourth-longest reign of any pope, behind those of Peter the Ap ...

. He received his red biretta on 22 September 1879 from Pope Leo. He died on 23 January 1891 in Esztergom and was buried in the cathedral there.

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