Ladislav Hučko Explained

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.

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