Episcopal Palace, Castle in Hungary

The Episcopal Palace at Püspökszentlászló is an 18th-century complex of a late-Baroque church with an oval plan, a bishop's summer residence and a former stable, all built in 1797 for Bishop Pál László Esterházy. The church interior is about 13 m long under a pine-shingled dome 11.75 m high; the palace's main façade tympanum holds three Zsolnay pyrogranite coats of arms.

A 1721 source records a ruined church and a wooden hermit's hut here; a new church was built in 1725 under the Minorite Joannes Reinhard Uhl. The present church and palace were commissioned in 1797 by Bishop Pál László Esterházy. Bishop Hetyey Sámuel restored the palace in 1898 and bought land for the arboretum, and Bishop Gyula Zichy had the Zsolnay pyrogranite coats of arms of three bishops placed in the pediment in 1905.

The church holds its búcsú, the parish feast, on Saint Ladislaus's Day, 27 June. A Latin-inscribed sandstone tablet on the south wall recalls the 1725 church that stood here before the present one. In the castle a memorial room recalls Mindszenty József, held here in 1955; the nearby chapel of the Életrendezés Háza, consecrated in 2002, also bears his name.

The complex is open to visitors, and the buildings were renovated in the mid-2010s, with the work handed over and blessed on 29 October 2015. The church holds its búcsú, its patronal feast, on Saint Ladislaus's Day, 27 June. The arboretum around the palace can be walked through, and a statue of King Saint Ladislaus looks down on the buildings from the hillside above.

Before Mindszenty József arrived on 17 July 1955, the ÁVH gave the 35 elderly nuns then living in the palace 24 hours to leave, moving them to the Migazzi mansion at Verőce. A wooden fence was built around the grounds so that the archbishop, who had been held for years and weighed 44 kilograms, could not be seen. He was given two rooms upstairs while guards from Pécs occupied the ground floor.