Jaroslav Škarvada

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Jaroslav Škarvada (born September 14, 1924 in Prague - Královské Vinohrady , † June 14, 2010 in Prague) was auxiliary bishop in Prague .

Life

In 1945 Jaroslav Škarvada studied at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome and at the Czech Pontifical Collegium Nepomucenum in Rome. On 12 March 1949 he received by the Auxiliary Bishop of Rome and later Cardinal Luigi Traglia the priesthood . Because of the political situation in Czechoslovakia , he was unable to return home and initially taught dogmatics at the seminary in Chieti , Italy . In 1965 he became secretary to Josef Cardinal Beran , who had been expelled from Czechoslovakia as Archbishop of Prague. From 1968 he took care of the Czechs abroad in pastoral care . From 1970 to 1991 he worked in the Vatican State Secretariat .

On 18 December 1982 it appointed Pope John Paul II. To the titular of Litomyšl bishop for the pastoral care of the Czech emigrants and gave him personally on January 6, 1983, the episcopal ordination ; Co-consecrators were the Archbishop of the Curia and later Cardinal Eduardo Martínez Somalo and the Secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples and later Cardinal Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy .

On August 28, 1991 he was appointed auxiliary bishop in Prague by Pope John Paul II. From November 1991 to February 2001 he was Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Prague. From January 1993 to September 2002 he was provost of the Metropolitan Chapter at St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague. He was retired on September 25, 2002.

For his services, Jaroslav Škarvada was awarded the Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk Order III in 2003 . Class excellent.

Škarvada was the Apostolic Delegate of the Grand Master of the Lords of the Cross with the Red Star from 2004 until his death .

Web links

• Literature and other media by and about Jaroslav Škarvada in the catalog of the National Library of the Czech Republic
• Entry on Jaroslav Škarvada on catholic-hierarchy.org ; Retrieved December 20, 2016.