Maramuresh and Podkarpathian Rus

Hungary of that time (1868-1914) resorted to a decisive offensive, organizing a violent Magyarization of non-Hungarian ethnic groups, using for this purpose, including the Church. In 1912, the Hungarian Greek Catholic bishopric for Magyarization was established, based in Hajdúborodóg, under conditions that Greek Catholicism is not a traditional Hungarian religion. Some 350,000 Hungarians Greek Catholics in Hungary today, historically speaking, are former Orthodox non-Hungarians, but Ruthenians and Romanians, who were Magyarized by non-Orthodox means, that is, through the Greek Catholic Church.