Bishop Ferenc Fazekas (Serbian Cyrillic: Ференц Фазекаш; born 29 September 1958) is a Serbian Roman Catholic prelate who is serving as the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Subotica in Serbia since 7 October 2023.
Bishop Fazekas was born into a Vojvodina Hungarians Roman Catholic family in Bečej (town located in the South Bačka District).
[1] After graduation from the classical gymnasium Paulinum in Subotica in 1977, he consequently joined the Archdiocesan Theological Seminary in Zagreb and the Theological Faculty at the University of Zagreb, where he studied from 1977 until 1984,[1] and was ordained as priest on 29 June 1984 in the Cathedral of St. Theresa of Avila for his native Diocese of Subotica,[2] after completed his philosophical and theological studies.
And at the same time, between 2005 and 2012 he served as the dean of the Bačka Topola deanery, and from 2012 to 2020 he was the archpresbyter of the Potis archpresbyterate.
On 11 November 2023, he was consecrated as bishop by Archbishop Dražen Kutleša and other prelates of the Roman Catholic Church in the Cathedral of St. Theresa of Avila in Subotica.