Ján Babjak, S.J. (born 28 October 1953, in Hažín nad Cirochou) is Slovak Greek Catholic prlate and a former residential archieparch of Prešov and the highest representative of the Greek Catholic sui iuris Church in Slovakia.

Contents

• 1 Early life and studies
• 2 Society of Jesus
• 3 Named bishop
• 4 Works
• 5 References
• 6 External links

Early life and studies

After studying at the Bratislava seminary was ordained a priest on 11 June 1978 in Presov. His pastoral service performed as a chaplain in Prešov from 1978 to 1983. In August 1983 he began work as a parish administrator in the Ľubica Kežmarok.

On 18 June 1987, he secretly joined the Society of Jesus. From 1989 to 1990 he was the Prefect of the Seminary of St. Cyril and Methodius University in Bratislava. In 1990 he became pastor of the Greek Catholic parish in Bratislava, where he served one year. From 1991 to 1993 he studied at the Pontifical Oriental Ins*ute in Rome, where he received a licentiate of spirituality.

Society of Jesus

After his return to Slovakia in 1993 and 1994, he was responsible for the retreat house of the Society of Jesus St. Ignatius in Presov. In 1994 he returned to Rome, where he worked in the Slovak Radio and the Vatican department in addition, he studied spirituality from which in 1996 at the Pontifical Oriental Ins*ute, defended his doctoral thesis on "P. Michal Lacko - teacher formatter and Greek Catholics."

From 1996 until now served as director of works include the Society of Jesus called "Center of Spirituality East-West, P. Michael Lack, SJ " also lectured on Eastern spirituality Faculty of Theology in Bratislava. As eparch Presov eparchy took place on 79 year Mons. The Day of John, who handled the role of the Eparchy of Presov ordinary and apostolic administrator of the Greek Catholic Church in Czechoslovakia since 1968.

Named bishop

On 11 December 2002 Pope John Paul II named him the first Bishop of Presov, being consecrated the Basilica of St. Peter in Rome on 6 January 2003 by John Paul II.

On 30 January 2008 he was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI Metropolitan of Presov and also promoted to the rank archeparch. A festival promotion of Greek Catholic Church in Slovakia to the metropolitan church of its rights-based in Prešov and the enthronement of the first Catholic Archbishop and Metropolitan Ján Babjak, SJ, took place on Sunday 17 February 2008 in the city hall in Prešov.

On 25 April 2022, Pope Francis accepted Ján Babjak's resignation prior to reaching the canonical age and named Peter Rusnák Greek Catholic Eparchal Bishop of Bratislava the apostolic administrator to the Archeparchy of Prešov. According to Eparchal sources, Babjak requested the release from his pastoral duties in February 2022. In his statement, Archibishop presented his resignation in favour of "peace and wellbeing of the Church"

Works

• Babjak, John P. Michal Lacko, SJ, and informant formatter Catholics. Trnava: Good Book Publishing, 1997. Dialogues.
• Babjak, John: remain faithful: I. volume. Prešov: Petra, 2009. ISBN:978-80-8099-034-3
• Babjak, John: remain faithful: I. volume. Prešov: Petra, 2009. ISBN:978-80-8099-034-3

References

External links

• http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bbabjak.html
• https://web.archive.org/web/20071020063613/http://www.kbs.sk/do_pdf/index.php?cid=1117710452
• http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/pres1.htm#3777
• http://www.grkatpo.sk/?jan_babjak