Jozef Tiso, born in Veľká Bytča
on 13-10-1887, from a Slovak family of seven middle-class children (his father was a butcher) in what was then the kingdom of Hungary. He graduated from the Pasmaneum college in Vienna, in 1910, as a theologian. He worked as a Catholic curate in several towns, teaching Slovak spelling, organizing theater performances, and doing cultural work. At the beginning of World War I, Tiso served as a military chaplain. In 1915, he became the director of the local minor seminary at Nitra and a teacher at the Piarist high school in the same town. From 1921 to 1924, Tiso served as the secretary of the local bishop and a teacher at the seminary of divinity at Nitra. In 1924, he became the seminary’s dean and parish priest of the town of Bánovce nad Bebravou
. Tiso was a Roman Catholic priest and a famous Nazi collaborator as president of Slovakia during World War II.
















Death and burial ground of Tiso, Mgr. Dr. Jozef..




