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József Mindszenty

1892–1975 · 20th century

József Mindszenty was archbishop of Esztergom and primate of Hungary from 1945 and a cardinal from 1946. An outspoken opponent of communism, he was arrested in December 1948 and sentenced to life imprisonment after a show trial in 1949. Freed during the revolution of 1956, he took refuge in the United States embassy in Budapest, where he lived for fifteen years before leaving Hungary in 1971.

József Mindszenty
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Second Hungarian Republic

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