Cardinal Ladislav Nemet, S.V.D., Archbishop of Belgrade, Serbia, was born on 7 September 1956 in Odžaci, in the diocese of Subotica, Serbia. In 1977 he entered the Society of the Divine Word and was ordained a priest on 1 May 1983. He obtained a doctorate in dogmatic theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University of Rome. He has held the following offices: missionary in the Philippines, lecturer in Poland, Austria and Croatia, collaborator with the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations, provincial of the Hungarian Province of the Society of the Divine Word, and secretary general of the Hungarian Bishops’ Conference. He was appointed Bishop of Zrenjanin on 23 April 2008, receiving episcopal ordination the following 5 July. In 2021, he was re-elected for a second term as president of the International Episcopal Conference of Saints Cyril and Methodius; in addition, he is vice-president of the Council of European Bishops’ Conferences (CCEE). On 5 November 2022 he was appointed metropolitan archbishop of Belgrade.

He was created and proclaimed cardinal by Pope Francis in the Consistory of 7 December 2024, and was assigned the titular church S. Maria Stella Maris.

Member of:

·      Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity