Stanisław Nagy, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Stanisław Nagy

Roman Catholic prelate

Date of Birth: 30-Sep-1921

Place of Birth: Bieruń Stary, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 05-Jun-2013

Profession: Catholic priest, university teacher

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Stanislaw Kazimierz Nagy, SCI (30 September 1921 – 5 June 2013) was a Polish member of the Priests of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (Dehonians) and a Cardinal.
He was born in 1921 in Bierun, Silesia, Poland, to a Hungarian father and Polish mother.
In 1937 he became a member of the Dehonian Congregation and was ordained a priest in 1945.
He was a rector in Kraków-Plaszów, in Tarnów and a professor at the Catholic University of Lublin. In the early 1970s Nagy served on the International Theological Commission, the Joint-Catholic-Lutheran Commission and on the editorial staff of the Catholic Encyclopedia.
He attended Synods in 1981 and 1985 as well as writing books on ecumenism and Pope John Paul II.
He was consecrated as Archbishop and was created Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria della Scala on 21 October 2003.
Cardinal Nagy died on 5 June 2013 in Kraków, Poland.