Tamás Szabó

Who is Tamás Szabó?

Tamás Szabó is a controversial and former Hungarian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He resigned as Bishop for the Catholic Military Ordinariate of Hungary on March 15, 2007 in order to pursue marriage with a woman he met in the Church's charismatic movement. Other sources report this woman works in the Ministry of Defence. Szabó told Népszabadság that, "I do not want to talk about my private life. I don't think that is a public matter."

Born in Zirc, he was ordained a priest on August 20, 1988.

On November 28, 2001, he was appointed the leading Catholic chaplain in the Hungarian military by Pope John Paul II. Szabó received his episcopal consecration on January 12, 2002 from László Cardinal Paskai, with Archbishop István Seregély and Bishop Lajos Pápai serving as co-consecrators.