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Bálint Imre, Dr.

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Birth data:: Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, currently Ukraine — 1912
Death data:: currently USA, Argentina — 1999
Denomination:: Roman Catholic
Ecclesiastical status:: diocesan
Diocese / Order:: Moreno (ma: Merlo-Moreno), Argentina

Ordination level:: deacon
Ordination to the diaconate:: 1980

Biographical data

From 1936, he was a student at Pázmány Péter University. On the advice of Tihamér Tóth, he did not choose the priesthood, but he still felt a calling to pastoral work. During World War II, he served on the Russian front and then spent three years in a British prisoner-of-war camp.

He lived in Argentina starting in 1948. He was ordained a permanent deacon in 1980. As the founder of the so-called “mobile mission” of the Hungarian community in Argentina, he traveled by car to visit the communities and preach to them there.

Foreign service locations

From	To	Place	Current name, country	Church / institution	Position
1980	?	Argentina			Ven y Ven – Mobile Chapel - Deacon

Literary activity

Székelyek (1936);
Magyarország nem hal meg! (1956);
Egy diakónus kalandjai és vallomásai (Katolikus Magyarok Vasárnapja, 1992);
Számos könyvet jelentetett meg spanyol nyelven is.
Rendszeresen publikált a Katolikus Magyarok Vasárnapja, valamint az Amerikai Magyar Szó c. hetilapokban.

Life timeline

Birth

1912

Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, currently Ukraine

Service abroad

1980 – ?

Argentina

Ven y Ven – Mobile Chapel - Deacon

Ordination to the diaconate

1980

Death

1999

currently USA, Argentina

Sources

Miklósházy Attila SJ.: Vázlatok és adalékok a külföldi római katolikus magyar lelkipásztorkodás történetéhez, MEV 13., 2001/1–2., 223-262.
Rónay László: Kulturális krónika (szemle), Új forrás, 1992. december 1, 80p.
Molnár Gábor: Magyar hősök Latin-Amerikában a XX. században (1936–1997 között), MEV 2004/1–2., 217-241.

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Citation for this entry

Bálint Imre, Dr.: personal record. In: Historical directory of Hungarian, Hungarian-descended, and Hungarian-speaking clergy serving abroad. Available at: https://www.diaszporalelkipasztorok.hu/persons_v2/view.php?id=57 (accessed: 2026-07-07).

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