SIPOS, ISTVÁN - Hungarian canonist, b. at Mohács in 1875, d. at Paris on 2 Dec. 1949.

A priest in 1898, he taught canon law from 1906 to 1931 at the Seminary of the diocese of Cinque Chiese (Pécs), where he was at the same time spiritual director. In 1931 he was made rector and canon there, and later abbot; in 1948 domestic prelate and at the beginning of 1949 provost of the cathedral Chapter.

He wrote various monographs on canon law and on the history of canon law in Hungarian; on celibacy (1913), on the statutes of the diocese of Cinque Chiese (1912), on the Roman Question (1917), on matrimonial law (1927, 1937, 1943). In a well-documented report to the International Juridical Congress of Rome in 1935 he dealt with the Coelibatus in antiquissimus legibus et statutis synodalibus Hungariae usque ad collectionem Gregorianam (Acta Congressus iuridici internationalis, III, Rome 1937, p. 439 ff.). His major work is the Enchiridion iuris canonici (Pécs 1926, 5th ed. 1947), a commentary on the CIC with the exception of the following subjects: de Eucharistia, de Poenitentia, de Extrema Unctione.

Bibliography2 works

BIBL.: A. van Hove, Prolegomena, Malines-Rome 1945, p. 639; necrologio, in Apollinaris, 22 (1949), p. 227.

Benedetto De Sanctis

@incollection{ec11_sipos_istvan, author = {De, Sanctis Benedetto}, title = {Sipos, istván}, booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica}, volume = {XI}, pages = {718}, note = {Cited by column}, publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico}, address = {Città del Vaticano}, year = {1953}, url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/sipos-istvan} }

One of some 20,000 entries brought back from the twelve printed volumes (1948–54). Spotted something? Help us improve it.

Sipos, István

About this entry