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Imre Kozma (4 June 1940 – 17 October 2024) was a Hungarian Roman Catholic priest, the founder of the Hungarian Charity Service of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, patron of East German refugees arriving to Hungary in 1988–89.
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Imre Kozma (4 June 1940 – 17 October 2024) was a Hungarian Roman Catholic priest, the founder of the Hungarian Charity Service of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, patron of East German refugees arriving to Hungary in 1988–89.
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Biography Imre Kozma was born in 1940 in Győrzámoly. His father died in a train accident in 1941 and he was raised by his mother and grandmother. He completed his secondary education in 1958 at Czuczor Gergely Benedictine Secondary School. Subsequently, he studied theology at the Esztergom Seminary. He was ordained as a priest in 1963; first he became the curate of Tát and Dorog, then he served at the Holy Family Parish in Zugliget (Budapest) from 1966 to 1968. He served at the Church of Saint Peter of Alcantara, better known as the Franciscan Church of Pest, from 1968 until 1977. Subsequently he returned to Zugliget, where he arranged a regular youth and family pastoral care. He organized a system of charitable activities in the parish, manned chiefly by his youth group. He served in Zugliget until 1997. In 1987 he was approached by the Hungarian association-in-exile of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, then operating mostly from West Germany, which was looking for ways to start charitable activities openly inside Hungary. He thus came into contact with Baroness Csilla von Boeselager, who was the leading organiser of humanitarian shipments sent by the Order of Malta from West Germany…
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Acknowledgements: He was acknowledged in many ways for his humanitarian efforts in Hungary and abroad as well. 1992 – Protonotary apostolic (an honorary prelate of the Pope with the style Monsignor)
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1992 – Széchenyi Prize 1995 – prize for supporting the minorities (Kisebbségekért díj) 1999 – Grand Cross of Merit of the Order of Malta 2003 – Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary, Commander's Cross,
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2007 – Mindszenty medal 2010 – Chevalier of the Legion of Honour (France)
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Sources: Kozma died on 17 October 2024, at the age of 84.