Andrássy, Antal

ANDRASSY, ANTAL. – Jesuit, bishop of Rosenau, born in Romanfalva (Hungary) in 1742 and died in Rosenau on 12 November 1799. Having entered the Society of Jesus, and subsequently reduced to the status of a secular priest owing to the suppression of the Order in 1773, he was first parish priest (1776) in Rosenau and then bishop (1780–99). Extremely zealous—he founded 20 new parishes—and combative, he energetically opposed the prevailing Josephinism and deviations of every kind in ecclesiastical culture and discipline. Having refused to solemnize the marriage of a Catholic to a Protestant woman separated from her husband, he was deprived of his possessions and forced to withdraw to a Capuchin convent, where he led a very poor life while continuing to govern the diocese, until his death.