name

Polikárp Zakar / Polykarp Zakar

Polycarpe Zakar

               baptismal name

Zakar Ferenc

                               born

June 8, 1930 in Ókér (Jugoslavia)

            higher education

Zirc / Rome

                ordained priest

     begin of monastic life

August 29, 1948 in Zirc (Hungaria)

August 30, 1949 monastic profession

               responsibilities

1963 - 2007 editor of the

"Analecta cisterciensia"

1966 professor Sant' Anselmo (Rome)

1978 - 1985 dean of the theol. faculty of Sant' Anselmo

1985 -1995 general abbot ocist

1996 - 2010 abbot of Zirc and praeses of the Congregation of Zirc

2000 archi-abbot

                                  died

Sept. 17, 2012 in Budapest

                               buried

Sept. 24, 2012 in Zirc