Bishop Vladimír Fekete, S.D.B. (born 11 August 1955 in

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, present day

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) is a Slovak-born Roman Catholic prelate as the Apostolic Prefect of Apostolic Prefecture of Azerbaijan (since 5 November 2009 until 4 August 2011 as Superior of the

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) and Titular Bishop of Municipa (since 8 December 2017).

Life

Bishop Fekete was born in the Roman Catholic family in

. After graduation of the school education in his native city, he continued his study with mathematics and geology at the

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of the

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. During this time he clandestinely joined the

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and made a

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on 15 February 1975. With the solemn profession in 1981, he was ordained as

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on 30 January 1983, after completed his clandestine philosophical and theological study. Until 1989 he worked as geologist and secretly made a pastoral work among youth. After 1989 Fr. Fekete performed such ministries: as provincial vicar of the Salesians in Slovakia (1993–1999) and a provincial superior in Slovakia (1999–2005). Also he made a licentiate degree at the

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(1999). On 5 November 2009 he was appointed by

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as the Superior of the

of Baku (on 2011 this Mission was elevated in a rank of Prefecture Apostolic), and on 8 December 2017 by

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he was appointed as

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of Municipa. On 11 February 2018 he was consecrated as bishop by Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher and other prelates of the

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Fekete, Vladimir 1955 births Living people Slovak Roman Catholic priests Clergy from Bratislava Salesians of Don Bosco Comenius University alumni John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin alumni 21st-century Roman Catholic titular bishops