Rev Dr Laszlo Fazekas
Title:
Rev Dr
First Name:
Laszlo
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Preferred Name:
Surname:
Fazekas
Order:
Date of Birth:
Place of Birth:
Komarum
Country of Birth:
Hungary
Date of Ordination:
Place of Ordination:
Country of Ordination:
Hungary
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Date of Death:
Place of Death:
Adelaide SA
Country of Death:
Australia
Date of Burial:
Place of Burial:
West Terrace, Adelaide SA
Country of Burial:
Australia
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Appointments Table
Diocese | Place | Role | Start Day | Start Month | Start Year | End Day | End Month | End Year | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adelaide | Adelaide | Chaplain to Hungarian Community | Dec | 1950 | Adelaide, Biographies of deceased clergy | ||||
| Adelaide | Woodville | Assistant Priest | Jun | 1952 | 1955 | Adelaide, Biographies of deceased clergy |
Biographical Notes
Archdiocese of Adelaide, Biographies of deceased clergy, coordinated by Monsignor John Swann, available from https://adelaide.catholic.org.au/our-people/biographies-of-deceased-clergy, accessed on 6 November 2025:
Fr Ladislaus Fazekas
Biography:
Early Life
Ladislaus Fazekas was born in Komarum, Hungary on December 15, 1913. He received his early education at Szombathely. He studied civil law as well as undertaking ecclesiastical studies at the diocesan seminary in Szombathely. He was ordained to the priesthood on June 19, 1938. He did parish work for a time, and subsequently was chaplain to the Hungarian Forces in Russia. During that time he wrote a good deal for Cardinal Mindzenti’s Catholic Newspaper.
In 1945 he went to Germany as a refugee and was in charge of the spiritual welfare of fellow nationals in the diocese of Passau. Later he went to Italy where on August 1, 1950 he embarked on the SS Amarapoora at Geneva to come to Australia. There were 607 migrants on board including 70 Hungarians. He arrived at Newcastle in NSW on September 15.
Life in Australia
Fr Fazekas arrived in Adelaide on November 22, 1950 and was appointed chaplain to all the migrants at the Woodside Migrant Camp where there were a number of Hungarian migrants. Initially he resided at Woodside in the migrant camp. While continuing as chaplain to the Hungarian Community, in June 1952 he was appointed assistant priest in the Woodville parish.
In January 1955 he moved to reside at ‘The Pines’ at Plympton where he acted as chaplain to the Good Shepherd Sisters. He became firmly entrenched in the life of the archdiocese and in November 1965 he was incardinated as a priest of the archdiocese, thus leaving his allegiance to the diocese of Szombathely in Hungary.
He died quite suddenly at his residence at ‘The Pines” on August 26, 1971.
A Latin Funeral Mass was celebrated by Fr Ferriggi at the ‘Regnum Marianum’ Hungarian Centre at Hackney on August 29. The next day a Solemn Requiem Mass was celebrated in St Francis Xavier’s Cathedral and the burial took place at West Terrace Cemetery.
May he rest in peace.
Reproduced by permission of Monsignor John Swann and the Archdiocese of Adelaide.