An ethnic Hungarian,[citation needed] Ladislav Nemet (Német) was born on 7 September 1956 in Odžaci, then in the People's Republic of Serbia, Yugoslavia. He attended the secondary school Gymnasium Paulinum in Subotica from 1971 to 1976. He joined the Society of the Divine Word, completed his studies in philosophy and theology in Pieniezno, Poland, and there took his perpetual vows on 8 September 1982 and was ordained a priest in 17 April 1983.[1]
He obtained a doctorate in dogmatic theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University. After working as a missionary in the Philippines and a chaplain at the University of San Carlos in Cebu City,[2] he moved to Austria in 1994, where he held the following positions: professor of theology in Mödling, prefect of St. Gabriel and assistant in a nearby parish; collaborator of the Mission of the Holy See in Vienna at the Office of the United Nations and specialized agencies from 2000 to 2004, serving at the same time as professor of theology in Zagreb.[1]
He was provincial of the Hungarian Province of the Verbites from 2004 to 2007. In July 2006 he became Secretary General of the Hungarian Catholic Bishops' Conference and taught missiology at the Sapientia Institute of Theology for Religious in Budapest. In addition to Hungarian and Serbian, he speaks English, German, Polish, Italian and Croatian.[1]
On 23 April 2008, Pope Benedict XVI named him bishop of Zrenjanin.[1] He received his episcopal consecration on 5 July 2008 from Cardinal Péter Erdő.
On 6 October 2024, Pope Francis announced that he planned to make Nemet a cardinal on 8 December,[5] a date that was later changed to 7 December.[6] He is the first person from Serbia to be named to the College of Cardinals.[7]
On 7 December 2024, Pope Francis made him a cardinal, assigning him as a member of the order of cardinal priests the title of Santa Maria Stella Maris in Lido di Ostia (Rome).[8]
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