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Bishop Mgr. Mag. Hansjörg Peters Generalvicar Dear friends! I send you a few photos. There is the house in Eisenstraße 10 in Losensteine where is settled the General Vicariat. There are pictures of my Office and home chapel which is sacred to St Cyril and Method and I hope it will create more friendships. On 7th May 2005, bishop Mgr. A. Bačinský established General Vicariat of the Old Catholic Church in Slovakia for slovakian old catholics in Austria. It is the place determined fot the

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Bishop is the leader of the Synod Council. Members are four clergymen and five laicuses. The members are elected during the Synod Council. They have to be elected by more than half participants. Their mandate lasts till the nearest Synod Council.  Bishop is the chairman of the Synod Council leading the meeting. The vice president is laicus who is elected by the members of the Synod Council of their center. The funds are administrated by Synod Council, which are determinated to general church pu

Saint Gorazd  Organization (SGO) is interchurch organization of the Old Catholic Church in Slovakia with ecumenical dimension. Nitra is the residence of the Saint Gorazd Organization. The main aim of the SGO is upbringing and education of the believer to Christian adult and civil commitment in the ground ofthe Cyril and Method tradition and frankness to current problems. The highest organ of the organization is member meeting which is held once per year and it is organized by the Committee Orga

Bishop´s office - NITRA ThDr. Augustín Bačinský, archbishop Mgr. Anna Záhradníková, secretary of BO Chrenovská 15, 949 01 Nitra tel./fax.:00421 37 653 10 91 biskupsky.urad(c)slovenski-katolici.sk Remote work place of bishop Jozef Bačinský, secretary Dolná Tižina 108, okres Žilina Clerics of church ThDr. Augustín Bačinský, archbishop ThLic. Antonín Jelínek, bishop Mgr. HansJörg Peters, bishop ThLic. Bartolomej Kubík, canon Mgr. Vlastimil Šulgan, canon Ing. Štef

The bishop’s declaration of Old Catholic Church in Slovakia. In February of this year I allowed to announce my consecration, which I received in Portugal on 8th of February 2004. In spite of licit events, the Utrecht Union of Old Catholic Churches is making certain steps against my person and propagation of false and treacherous news about our Church in Slovakia as well (one of these sources is bishop Bernhard Heitz from Austria). In this mater of facts let me give you in the name of Old Cath

Mons. Augustín Bačinský, archbishop "Whotever He says to you, do it!", Jn 2,5  He was born 20.10.1949 in Lok near by Levice. His family has moved in 3 years into scenic country of Little Fatra, in Dolná Tižina. There his parents were born too. After high schoul graduation in tlen called Varin he raised into army. Afterward he studyed at the theological Cyrilo-methodian university in Bratislava. In 1977 he was consecrated. He did not accept absolute celibacy, that is why he can´t be a p

The most beautiful image which Jesus said, is for us weak and sinful people image „About thriftless son". However this „thriftless son" can be the whole band of people , nation or even church, not just one man. Accordly lets look at the Church history. Augustín Bačinský, bishop Impact of First Vatican Council After the First Vatican Council in 1870, many Austrian, German and Swiss Catholics rejected the teaching on papal infallibility, and left to form their own churches. These churche