See Archdiocese of Kalocsa Name Imre Csaky | Created Cardinal 12 July 1717 | |
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Installed 19 November 1714–28 August 1732 Other posts Previously Bishop of Nagyvarad Born 28 October 1672
Spis Castle, present-day Slovakia ( 1672-10-28 ) Died 28 August 1732(1732-08-28) (aged 59)
Oradea, present-day Romania | ||
Imre Csaky (28 October 1672 – 28 August 1732) was a Hungarian Roman Catholic cardinal.
Biography
Csaky was born in Spis Castle (nowadays in Slovakia), a fief of his family. He studied in Kosice, Vienna and Rome and was ordained priest, starting his eclessiastical career in Eger and then in Kosice and Esztergom. In 1703 he was appointed abbot of Szent Gothardi.
On 25 June 1703, he was elected bishop of Nagyvarad (present Oradea, Romania). On 19 November 1714, he was promoted metropolitan archbishop of Archdiocese of Kalocsa and held the Nagyvarad diocese as apostolic administrator until his death.
Csaky was created cardinal priest in pectore in the consistory of 12 July 1717 by Pope Clement XI with the title of Sant'Eusebio. He took part in the Papal conclave of 1721, but not in those of 1724 and 1730. He died in 1732 in a castle he had built near Nagyvarad.