Dominik Kalata

{{Short description|Slovakian Roman Catholic prelate (1925–2018)}}

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Dominik Kalata, SJ, (19 May 1925 in Nowa Biała – 23 August 2018) was a Slovak Catholic prelate who served as a titular Bishop of Semta.{{cite news|title=Bishop Dominik Kalata|url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bkalata.html |work=Catholic Hierarchy |access-date=2016-01-18}}

Kalata was ordained a Catholic priest on 12 August 1951 and clandestinely as a bishop on 9 September 1955 by Ján Chryzostom Korec, SJ, because of the Communist government of Czechoslovakia and its persecution of the Catholic Church. On 16 March 1985 he was officially appointed a titular bishop.

Kalata died on 23 August 2018 in Ivanka pri Dunaji, Slovakia.{{Cite web|url=https://www.kathpress.at/goto/meldung/1669019/frueherer-slowakischer-geheimbischof-dominik-kalata-gestorben|title=Früherer slowakischer Geheimbischof Dominik Kalata gestorben|website=www.kathpress.at|language=de|access-date=2018-08-26}}