Archbishop of Beograd (-Smederevo)
Bishop Ladislav Nemet, S.V.D., 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 was awarded a doctorate in dogmatic theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome. He has held the following roles: missionary in the Philippines; lecturer in Poland, Austria and Croatia; collaborator with the Holy See Permanent Mission to the United Nations in Vienna; provincial of the Hungarian Province of the Society of the Divine Word; and secretary general of the Hungarian Episcopal Conference. He was appointed bishop of Zrenjanin on 23 April 2008. In 2021, he was re-elected for a second term as chair of the International Episcopal Conference of Saints Cyril and Methodius; in addition, he is vice-president of the Council of Bishops’ Conferences of Europe (CCEE).