Lubomír Miřejovský

Lubomír Miřejovský (1992)

Lubomír Miřejovský (born May 11, 1925 in Košťany near Teplitz-Schönau ; † September 23, 2002 in Prague ) was a Czech pastor of the Evangelical Church of the Bohemian Brethren , ecumenist , author and general secretary of the Christian Peace Conference (CFK).

Life

Miřejovský grew up in a family who practiced their faith in the Evangelical Church of the Bohemian Brethren. From 1931 to 1936 he attended the village school in his place of birth. This was followed by three advanced classes at the secondary school in Duchcov . In 1938, due to the Munich Agreement , he and his family had to leave their north Bohemian place of residence in favor of the " Reichsdeutscher " who moved up and move to Libiš near Mělník . At the secondary school there, which he attended from 1938 to 1944, he acquired his university entrance qualification . In the last year of the Second World War he was called up for technical emergency aid and had to perform a so-called “full deployment” in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia .

1945 Lubomír began a university degree at the Protestant Theological Faculty of Prague Protestant theology . In 1947 he went to Richmond / Virginia in the USA , where he continued his theological studies at Union Theological Seminary as a scholarship holder for a bachelor's degree. In 1948 he moved to the San Francisco Theological Seminary in San Anselmo / California , where he obtained his master's degree on a scholarship . In 1949 he went to Czechoslovakia with his American wife , where he was able to complete his theological studies. He succeeded under difficult conditions at first, because as a returnee from the USA he was suspected of doing intelligence work for this country and instead of doing military service he had to serve a few years in a labor battalion whose recruits referred to themselves as the "black barons". It was a multi-year labor service that had to be completed in constantly changing locations in the ČSR. At first he was only able to speak to his wife occasionally through the fence of the camp gate. After a while, the living conditions relaxed for him, as he was able to take his scientific examination at the Prague Faculty of Theology. After his ordination to the ministry of his church, he worked as a vicar in Karlovy Vary . In 1952 he became pastor in the Evangelical Church of the Bohemian Brothers of Tábor , where he worked as a pastor until 1978. In the same year he was after submitting his thesis also for Theological Doctor (ThDr.) PhD .

In 1960 he became a member of the Christian Peace Conference . In 1978 he was elected CFK General Secretary - a position he held until 1990.

In 1990 Miřejovský retired. Now he devoted himself to the translation work and worked with companies and foundations in his country, so u. a. in the " Lidice Initiative ". As a tour guide, he worked on the US "GATE" ( "Introductory Program G lobal A wareness T rough E xperience"), with whom he made many Christian groups from different countries into contact. Occasionally he performed preaching assignments in congregations in Germany , Slovakia , the USA and his home country of the Czech Republic . In particular, his Christmas sermons in 1999 and 2000 in the Prague Bethlehem Chapel - once the preaching place of Jan Hus - which is otherwise only used for secular purposes, also attracted a great deal of attention from those who are far from the church.

Lubomír Miřejovský was married to Irene Elise Cibula and had four children.

Publications

• Dopisy z XX. Století (Letters from the 20th Century) , Prague 2004, ISBN 80-85903-16-4
• as translator:
  • F. Carter, School of the Small Tree , Kalich Publishing House, Prague 1993 and 2000
  • Blackwell Encyclopedia of Modern Theological Thought. A homecoming , Prague 2001