Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Reverend |
Ladislav Hučko | |
Titular Bishop of Horaea | |
Church: | Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church |
Diocese: | Apostolic Exarchate in the Czech Republic |
See: | Titular See of Horaea |
Term: | 2003– |
Predecessor: | Atilano Rodríguez Martínez |
Successor: | incumbent |
Ordination: | March 30, 1996 |
Ordained By: | Slavomir Miklovš |
Consecration: | May 31, 2003 |
Consecrated By: | Đura Džudžar |
Birth Date: | 16 February 1948 |
Birth Place: | Prešov, Czechoslovakia (present day Slovakia) |
Coat Of Arms: | Coat of arms of Ladislav Hučko.svg |
Ladislav Hučko (born 16 February 1948) is a Slovak hierarch of the Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church active in the Czech Republic.
Hučko was born in Prešov, Czechoslovakia (present-day in Slovakia) and was ordained a priest on 30 March 1996. Hučko was appointed titular bishop of Horaea as well as Apostolic Exarch of the Apostolic Exarchate of the Greek Catholic Church in the Czech Republic on 24 April 2003 and ordained a bishop on 31 May 2003.
He completed his studies by obtaining a doctorate from the Pontifical Lateran University in 2000. In 2004 he became Associate Professor of Dogmatic Theology. Subsequently, he began teaching dogmatic theology at the Theological Institute in Košice. He also became a founding member and editor-in-chief of the journal Verba Theologica. He also worked as a Spiritualist at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Košice.