Old Catholic Church in the Czech Republic
| Old Catholic Church in the Czech Republic | |
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| Basic data | |
| Area : | 78,864 km² |
| Membership : | Union of Utrecht |
| Bishop : | Dušan Hejbal |
| Priest : | 22nd |
| Pastor : | 16 |
| Parishes : | 16 |
| Old Catholics : | 2,700 |
| Cathedral Church : | St. Laurence ( Prague ) |
| Co-cathedral : | Metamorphosis of Christ ( Warnsdorf ) |
| Official Website: | www.starokatolici.cz |
The Old Catholic Church in the Czech Republic ( Starokatolická církev v České republice ) is an independent member church of the Utrecht Union of Old Catholic Churches .
history
The Old Catholic Church in the Czech Republic has its origins in the Old Catholic Church of Austria-Hungary , whose successor on the territory of the Republic of Austria is the Old Catholic Church of Austria . With the Diocese of Warnsdorf it formed a separate area of jurisdiction for the Old Catholic German Bohemians , whose center was in Warnsdorf in Northern Bohemia .
After the expulsion of the German Bohemia, the seat of the church leadership was moved to Prague . Today's Czech Old Catholic National Church was created after the division of Czechoslovakia . In Prague located diocesan and cathedral sv. Vavřince na Petříně (German: Lorenzkirche ). The Old Catholic Church in Warnsdorf was designated a co- cathedral at the end of the 1990s .
present
At the head of the church is Bishop Pavel Benedikt Stránský , who heads the diocese with a ten-member Synodal Council. In 2001 she hosted the first Old Catholic Congress in a country of the former Eastern Bloc. In autumn 2003 the first woman in her history was ordained as a deacon .
Bishops
- Miloš Čech (administrator)
- 1922–1946 Alois Pašek
- VJ Ráb (administrator)
- 1968–1991 Augustin Podolák
- 1991-2016 Dušan Hejbal
- 2016– Pavel Benedikt Stránský
literature
- Martin Schulze Wessel , Martin Zückert: Handbook of the religious and church history of the Bohemian countries and the Czech Republic in the 20th century. Oldenbourg, 2009, ISBN 978-3-486-58957-3 , p. 210 ff.
Web links
- Official Church website
- Radio Praha ( report of June 30, 1997 )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Starokatolická církev v České republice ( Memento of November 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ The number is obtained minus the Kněží and Jáhni; see parish Prague ( Memento from November 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Source: Christian Flügel: The Utrecht Union and the history of their churches ; Verlag Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2006, ISBN 3-8334-6069-5 ; Pp. 58-60. According to other information, it has 1,605 members ( [1] ). If one takes the average ratio of the number of parishes per diocese to the number of members in the other member churches of the Union of Utrecht, this speaks in favor of the first figure.
- ^ Radio Praha : Report of October 30, 2003