Gorazd of Prague

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Bishop Gorazd of Prague

Saint Gorazd of Prague (as Matěj Pavlík * May 26, 1879 in Hrubá Vrbka , Moravia , † September 4, 1942 Kobylisy shooting range in Prague-Kobylisy , executed ) was a Czech Orthodox bishop .

In 1902 Matěj Pavlík graduated from the Roman Catholic Faculty in Olomouc and was ordained a Roman Catholic priest on July 5 of the same year . Pavlík was already very interested in St. Cyril and St. Methodius during his student days . He later joined the Orthodox Church . This split after the First World War into a wing around Karel Farský and a wing around Matěj Pavlík.

Pavlík was ordained as Bishop of the Serbian Orthodox Church on September 24, 1921 under the name Gorazd , which he adopted in honor of St. Gorazd of Moravia .

Since those involved in the assassination attempt on the deputy Reich Protector in Bohemia and Moravia Reinhard Heydrich had found protection in the crypt of the Church of St. Cyril and Method in Prague , Bishop Gorazd was defeated by the Nazis together with three employees on September 3, 1942 in a show trial death sentenced and one day later shot . His body was cremated in the Strašnice crematorium in the Vinohrady cemetery , and the ashes were anonymously buried on the cemetery grounds.

For his services, Bishop Gorazd was posthumously awarded the Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk Order, First Class. He was canonized as a martyr on May 4, 1961 by the Serbian Orthodox Church and on August 24, 1987 by the Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia .

literature

  • Biskup Gorazd. Z díla. Prague 1988.
  • Osobnosti - Česko: Ottův slovník. Ottovo nakladatelství, Praha 2008, ISBN 978-80-7360-796-8 , p. 185.
  • Jaroslav Šuvarský: Biskup Gorazd. Metropolitní rada pravoslavné církve v ČSSR, Praha 1979.
  • Reinhard Thöle (Ed.): Approaches to Orthodoxy. Göttingen 1998, p. 217.
  • Josef Tomeš et al .: Český biografický slovník XX. století: I. díl: A – J. Praha; Litomyšl: Paseka; Petr Meissner, 1999, ISBN 80-7185-245-7 , p. 371.
  • Pavel Marek: Pravoslavní v Československu v letech 1918–1942. ISBN 80-86263-52-5 .
  • Encyklopedický slovník křesťanského Východu. Edward de Farrugia; Editor of the Czech edition: Pavel Ambros, Refugium Velehrad – Roma, Olomouc 2010, ISBN 978-80-7412-019-0 . Pp. 355-356.
  • Martin Jindra: Česká pravoslavná církev od Mnichova po obnovu v roce 1945. ÚSTR, Praha 2015, ISBN 978-80-87912-26-3 , p. 375.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Miroslav Ivanov : The attack on Heydrich. From the Czech by Hugo Kaminsky, with 44 illustrations and 6 maps, Augsburg 2000, ISBN 3-8289-0393-2 .


personal data
SURNAME Prague, Gorazd of
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pavlík, Matěj (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech Orthodox Bishop
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Hrubá Vrbka , Crown Land Moravia , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH September 4, 1942
Place of death Kobylisy , Prague , occupied Czechoslovakia