George Császka

* Nyitraszerdahely, December 4, 1826 – † Budapest, August 11, 1904 / Catholic bishop, archbishop of Kalocsa, church writer, patron ; ; He completed his high school studies in Nyitras, Tata and Esztergom in 1842. He then spent two years at the Emericanum in Bratislava, then studied humanities in Nagyszombat. From 1847 he was a student at the Pazmaneum in Vienna. He was ordained a priest in 1850 and taught mathematics at the high school in Nagyszombat until 1854. In 1854–1856 he served in the Austrian provinces and in Upper Italy. From 1856 he was the notary of the archdiocese of Esztergom, then the archdiocese secretary, and in 1864 he was appointed director of the primate's office. In 1870 he became a canon of Esztergom and in 1874 bishop of Szepes. In this capacity he introduced sermons in the Hungarian language in the Catholic churches of Szepes. He also founded four girls' schools (Lőcse, Rózsahegy, Turdossin, Szepesolaszi) and introduced Hungarian language education in several Catholic schools. He founded a printing press in Szepesváralján and supported both teachers and students with significant sums. In 1890 he launched the weekly newspaper Szepesi közlöny. He had several churches in Szepes restored and financially supported the publication of Monumenta Vaticana. In 1891 he was appointed as the successor of Lajos Haynald to the ; head of the Kalocsa Archdiocese. In 1896 he participated as an organizer in the preparation of the millennium celebrations. ; As an archbishop, he was also interested in history, genealogy and heraldry. He initiated and supported the construction of several new churches in his diocese. As a priestly student, he wrote a study on the prohibition of smoking and its harms, published a Hungarian-language mathematics book (Viszonyszámi táblák, 1853), and a Latin-language treatise on Saint Thomas Aquinas entitled Oratio panegyrica in honorem angelici doctoris S. Thomae Aquinatis (1874).