Dominik Hrušovský

Dominik Hrušovský (1 June 1926 – 27 July 2016) was a prelate of the Catholic Church who served outside his homeland during its years of Communist control, largely devoted to the pastoral care of Catholic Slovaks abroad. Late in his career he returned to Slovakia. He was also Apostolic Nuncio to Belarus.

Biography He was born in Veľká Maňa, Slovakia, on 1 June 1926. He began his theological studies in Bratislava and then from 1946 in Rome at the Pontifical Lateran University. Because of the Communist takeover of Czechoslovakia, he did not return home. He was ordained a bishop on 6 January 1983, continuing to head the Institute of Sts. Cyril and Methodius. His mandate grew with the fall of communism, which allowed him to reach Slovak communities in the former Warsaw Pact countries of Eastern Europe.

On 13 April 1996, Pope John Paul II elevated him to titular archbishop of Tubia and named him Apostolic Nuncio to Belarus. He retired when his successor in Belarus was appointed on 28 July 2001.

Hrušovský died on 27 July 2016 in Nitra, Slovakia, where he spent the last years of his life in retirement.