František Rábek

František Rábek (born 17 February 1949) a Slovak prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He is the first ordinary of the Military Ordinariate of Slovakia.

Biography
František Rábek was born on 17 February 1949 in the village of Močenok, in Šaľa District. Following his studies of theology at the Comenius University he was ordained priest on 17 June 1972. Afterwards, he served as a chaplain in Bošany and in Nitra and later a parish priest in Nitra, Drážovce and Čierne. On 13 July 1991 he was named the auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Nitra and the titular bishop of Catrum by the Pope John Paul II. He was consecrated on 27 July 1991 by the Cardinal Ján Chryzostom Korec. On 20 January 2003 he became the first ordinary of the newly created Military Ordinariate of Slovakia.