Alexander Stefan Rudnay de Rudna et Divkujfalu was a Hungarian Roman Catholic priest of Slovak ethnicity. He started as a parish priest, but later he became the Archbishop of Esztergom, the Prince Primate of the Kingdom of Hungary and a Cardinal.
Alexander Rudnay was born to a family of lower nobility, which originated from the ancient Hungarian gens Divk. The Rudnay family also preserved its coat of arms from the genus a brown bear under an extensive foliage of tee with blue background. His parents were Andrs Rudnay, a servants judge and Anna Dry . He studied in secondary school in Nitra , later in Emerican in Pressburg, philosophy in Trnava , theology in Buda and, finally, in the general seminary in Pressburg.
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