Former Auxiliary for the Diocese of Banská Bystrica and Bishop of the Titular See of Carcabia, Monsignor Peter Dubovský SJ., was born in Rakovice, Czechoslovakia, on June 28, 1921.
Ordained to the priesthood through the Society of Jesus on December 24, 1950, at the age of 29, Dubovský was secretly consecrated Bishop by Msgr. Dominik Kalata SJ., on May 18, 1961. He was renowned as a hero in his country, as being one of the numerous bishops who suffered under the Communist Regime.
Pope John Paul II named him Auxiliary and Vicar General of the See of Banská Bystrica, with the Titular See of Carcabia, on January 12, 1991. He retired from office on July 30, 1997, and died unexpectedly on Thursday, April 10, 2008, aged 86.
Requiem Mass was said at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Trnava on April 18, followed by interment in the crypt of the Katedrále sv. Jána Krstiteľa in Trnave, beside Msgr. Pavel Mária Hnilica SJ., (1921 - 2006), a fellow Jesuit who was likewise clandestinely consecrated to the episcopate during the Communist occupation of Czechoslovakia.
Ordained to the priesthood through the Society of Jesus on December 24, 1950, at the age of 29, Dubovský was secretly consecrated Bishop by Msgr. Dominik Kalata SJ., on May 18, 1961. He was renowned as a hero in his country, as being one of the numerous bishops who suffered under the Communist Regime.
Pope John Paul II named him Auxiliary and Vicar General of the See of Banská Bystrica, with the Titular See of Carcabia, on January 12, 1991. He retired from office on July 30, 1997, and died unexpectedly on Thursday, April 10, 2008, aged 86.
Requiem Mass was said at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Trnava on April 18, followed by interment in the crypt of the Katedrále sv. Jána Krstiteľa in Trnave, beside Msgr. Pavel Mária Hnilica SJ., (1921 - 2006), a fellow Jesuit who was likewise clandestinely consecrated to the episcopate during the Communist occupation of Czechoslovakia.
Former Auxiliary for the Diocese of Banská Bystrica and Bishop of the Titular See of Carcabia, Monsignor Peter Dubovský SJ., was born in Rakovice, Czechoslovakia, on June 28, 1921.
Ordained to the priesthood through the Society of Jesus on December 24, 1950, at the age of 29, Dubovský was secretly consecrated Bishop by Msgr. Dominik Kalata SJ., on May 18, 1961. He was renowned as a hero in his country, as being one of the numerous bishops who suffered under the Communist Regime.
Pope John Paul II named him Auxiliary and Vicar General of the See of Banská Bystrica, with the Titular See of Carcabia, on January 12, 1991. He retired from office on July 30, 1997, and died unexpectedly on Thursday, April 10, 2008, aged 86.
Requiem Mass was said at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Trnava on April 18, followed by interment in the crypt of the Katedrále sv. Jána Krstiteľa in Trnave, beside Msgr. Pavel Mária Hnilica SJ., (1921 - 2006), a fellow Jesuit who was likewise clandestinely consecrated to the episcopate during the Communist occupation of Czechoslovakia.
Ordained to the priesthood through the Society of Jesus on December 24, 1950, at the age of 29, Dubovský was secretly consecrated Bishop by Msgr. Dominik Kalata SJ., on May 18, 1961. He was renowned as a hero in his country, as being one of the numerous bishops who suffered under the Communist Regime.
Pope John Paul II named him Auxiliary and Vicar General of the See of Banská Bystrica, with the Titular See of Carcabia, on January 12, 1991. He retired from office on July 30, 1997, and died unexpectedly on Thursday, April 10, 2008, aged 86.
Requiem Mass was said at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Trnava on April 18, followed by interment in the crypt of the Katedrále sv. Jána Krstiteľa in Trnave, beside Msgr. Pavel Mária Hnilica SJ., (1921 - 2006), a fellow Jesuit who was likewise clandestinely consecrated to the episcopate during the Communist occupation of Czechoslovakia.
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