Stephen I founds Hungarian bishoprics

1001

The newly crowned Magyar king established the archdiocese of Esztergom and began carving his realm into ten dioceses. Benedictine monks from Germany were imported by the wagon-load to teach Latin letters. A people who had raided Europe for a century became one of Latin Christendom's permanent frontiers. Esztergom's archbishop would hold primacy over Hungarian church affairs for the next thousand years.