What is Ján Chryzostom Korec?
[[File:Janchryzostomkorec.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Korec in November 2005]] '''Ján Chryzostom Korec''', [[Society of Jesus|SJ]] (22 January 1924 &ndash; 24 October 2015)<ref>[http://www.aktuality.sk/clanok/208502/zomrel-kardinal-jan-chryzostom-korec-bojovnik-za-slobodu/ Vo veku 91 rokov zomrel kardinál Ján Chryzostom Korec] {{in lang|sk}}</ref> was a [[Slovakia|Slovak]] [[Jesuit Cardinal]] and Bishop Emeritus of the [[Diocese of Nitra]]. He served in the church from 1990 through 2005. He was in jail for eight years (1960-1968) because of his activism against [[Communism]]. Korec was born in [[Bošany]], [[Czechoslovakia]]. He died in [[Nitra]], Slovakia at the age of 91. ==More reading== *{{cite book | last=Korec| first=Ján| title =Die Nacht der Barbaren-Als Geheimbischof in der Kirche des Schweigens 1950–1970| publisher = Verlag Styria| year = 1996 | location = Graz-Vienna-Cologne| pages = 111–113 | language = German}} *{{cite book|last=Spolok Slovenských Spisovateľov|title= Život a dielo Jána Chryzostoma Korca| publisher = Filozofická Fakulta UKF| year = 1999 | location = Nitra, Slovakia|language = Slovak}} ==References== {{commonscat}} {{reflist}} {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Korec, Jan Chryzostom}} [[Category:1924 births]] [[Category:2015 deaths]] [[Category:Czechoslovak anti-communists]] [[Category:Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church]] [[Category:Slovak Roman Catholic bishops]]