Ábel Antal Szocska, O.S.B.M. | |
Birth Name: | Anatoliy Sochka |
Birth Date: | 21 September 1972 |
Eparchial Bishop of Hungarian Catholic Eparchy of Nyíregyháza | |
Appointed: | 31 October 2015 (as Apostolic Administrator) 7 April 2018 (as Eparchial Bishop) |
Ordination: | 30 September 2001 (Priest) |
Ordained By: | Szilárd Keresztes |
Consecration: | 10 May 2018 (Bishop) |
Consecrated By: | Péter Fülöp Kocsis |
Predecessor: | Atanáz Orosz (as Ap. Administrator) |
Successor: | Incumbent |
Other Post: | Protohegumen of the Hungarian province of the O.S.B.M. (since 2008) |
Bishop Ábel Antal Szocska, O.S.B.M. (Ukrainian: Авель Сочка; born 21 September 1972) is a Hungarian Greek Catholic hierarch. He is serving as the first Eparchial Bishop of the Hungarian Catholic Eparchy of Nyíregyháza from 31 October 2015 (until 7 April 2018 he was an Apostolic Administrator of the same Eparchy).
Born in Vynohradiv, Ukrainian SSR in 1972, he was ordained a priest on 30 September 2001 by Bishop Szilárd Keresztes. He was appointed the Apostolic Administrator by the Holy See on 31 October 2015.[1]