Ferenc Polikárp Zakar
Polycarp Zakar OCist ( born June 8, 1930 in Oker, Yugoslavia, now Serbia, as Ferenc Zakar, † 17 September 2012 in Budapest) was a Hungarian Cistercian monk and church historian and canonist. He was Abbot General of the Cistercian Order and abbot of the Cistercian monastery Zirc in Hungary.
Life
Ferenc Zakar came after the visit of the Cistercian school in the Hungarian Baja in the Cistercian abbey of Zirc in Hungary, where he took the religious name of Polycarp. The investiture took place on August 29, 1948. After two years studying philosophy and theology in Zirc He made his first profession on August 30, 1949. In 1950 he graduated from a theological doctoral studies in Rome. With the abolition of the Hungarian monasteries under the Stalinist government of Mátyás Rákosi he were arrested and 27 more regular priests and later handed over to Austria to the Russian occupation. On January 1, 1954, he made his solemn profession and received on 4 September 1955 in Switzerland, the ordination.
Zakar was initially at the General House of the Cistercian Order in Rome worked. After a study of church history at the Pontifical Gregorian University, he was a lecturer from 1960, from 1966 Professor of Church History at the Pontifical Athenaeum of Saint Anselm. At the Pontifical Lateran University, he completed 1969-1972 doctoral studies and taught canon law at Saint Anselm. From 1978 to 1985 he was dean of the theological faculty at Saint Anselm in Rome.
He was a consultant and member of several congregations of the Holy See, including the Congregation for Religious and the Congregation for the Causes of Saints.
From 1985 to 1995 Polycarp Zakar was the 80th Abbot General of the Cistercian Order. After the 1950 by the state -resolved Hungarian Zirc Abbey was re-authorized in 1989, he worked there from 1996 to 2008 as abbot of Zirc and Abbot President of the Congregation of Zirc, he also was a professor of canon law at the Catholic Pázmány Péter University. After the official end of his term as abbot and Präses he led the Abbey and Congregation until the election of his successor on 20 December 2010 as an administrator. On 25 January 2000, he had received from Pope John Paul II 's personal title of High Abbot.
Zakar is the author of numerous books and scientific papers. From 1963 to 2007 he was editor of the scientific journal Analecta Order Cisterciensia.