Štěpán Trochta

Bishop Štěpán Trochta (1970)

Cardinal Trochta coat of arms

Štěpán Cardinal Trochta SDB (* 26. March 1905 in Francova Lhota ( Franz impact ); † 6. April 1974 in Litoměřice ( Leitmeritz )) was Bishop of Litomerice ( Litoměřice ).

Career

Štěpán Trochta entered after his school time in Olomouc in 1923 in the community of the Salesians of Don Bosco and studied Catholic theology and philosophy in Turin , where he received the sacrament of ordination on June 29, 1932 . He then worked in various houses of his order in what was then Czechoslovakia . In Prague and Ostrava he was one of the founders of the houses of the Salesians. During the Second World War , Štěpán Trochta was interned in the concentration camps Theresienstadt , Mauthausen and Dachau from 1942 to 1945 .

Bishop of Leitmeritz

Pope Pius XII appointed Štěpán Trochta in 1947 Bishop of Leitmeritz. He was consecrated as a bishop on November 16, 1947 by the then Apostolic Nuncio in Czechoslovakia, Archbishop Saverio Ritter .

In the years 1949 to 1968 the communist rulers forbade him to exercise his pastoral service. In 1953 he was sentenced to 25 years imprisonment and spent several years in the notorious Leopoldov prison , among others , until he was given amnesty in 1960. Pope Paul VI appointed him in 1969 in pectore for Cardinal . The public proclamation and admission as cardinal priest with the titular church of San Giovanni Bosco in via Tuscolana took place in the solemn consistory on March 5, 1973. Štěpán Trochta died on April 6, 1974 in Litoměřice and was buried in the bishop's crypt in the local cemetery.

literature

• KUBANOVIČ, Zlatko : Historický náhľad do dejín slovenských saleziánov (Od dona Bosca do roku 1924) . Bratislava: Don Bosco, 2019. ISBN 978-80-8074-436-6 . Pp. 200 - 201, 203, 208, 294 - 295.
• Štěpán Trochta: Kardinál Trochta mučedník Terezín, Mauthausen, Dachau. 2nd edition, Nove Město 1992.
• Jaroslav Novosad: Štěpán Trochta. Praha 2001, ISBN 80-7178-591-1 .

Web links

Commons : Štěpán Trochta  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Trochta, SDB, Stepan. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed August 5, 2016.
• Entry on Stepán Trochta, SDS on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on August 5, 2016.
• Literature by and about Štěpán Trochta in the catalog of the German National Library