Václav Dvořák (clergyman)

Václav Dvořák

Václav Dvořák (born December 28, 1921 in Bechyně , † July 30, 2008 in České Budějovice ) was a Czech Catholic clergyman and episcopal vicar in the diocese of Budweis .

Life

Václav Dvořák studied Catholic theology at the Seminary in Budweis; In 1942 he was abducted by the National Socialists for forced labor in Linz, Austria . After the war he finished his studies in Lyon . He was ordained a priest in 1948 , the year Komunistická strana Československa came to power . He worked as a pastor and was arrested for two weeks in 1951 after working with the scouts banned by the Communist Party . He lost his state license to exercise the priesthood and was interned in a technical labor camp for 14 months, then imprisoned for seven years in a prison for forced labor in the uranium mining in northern Bohemia. After his release he was not allowed to serve as a priest. In the Prague spring of 1969 he was briefly pastoral officer in the Budweis diocese . After the suppression of the uprising, he worked as an antiquarian in Prague from 1970, and from 1982 he became illegally involved in the training of candidates for priesthood, the theological faculty at the South Bohemian University of České Budějovice and the Czechoslovak underground church. In 1985 he was again given official authorization to exercise the priesthood.

After the fall of communist rule and the establishment of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic (ČSFR), he was appointed vicar general of the Budweis diocese on April 1, 1990 . With Miloslav Vlk's appointment as Archbishop of Prague, he was Apostolic Administrator in Budweis from June to November 1991 . Since 2000 he has been episcopal vicar for foreign relations, school system and priestly education as well as in pastoral care.

In 2002, President Václav Havel honored Václav Dvorák with the First Class Medal of Merit for his services to the Czech Republic .

Web links

Literature by and about Václav Dvořák in the catalog of the German National Library
Simone Boria: Vice Versa - Dr. Josef Schicho in conversation with Prelate Vaclac Dvorak about his life and work. (mp3 audio, 4.5 MB, 1:57 minutes) In: Free Radio Freistadt . March 5, 2006 .; accessed on March 17, 2020
Radek Gális: Mohl zabít i Hitlera. In: Táborský deník. August 1, 2008 (Czech, biography Václav Dvořák).; accessed on March 17, 2020
Marek Bárta: Zemřel bratr Václav Dvořák - Ťinťa. In: krizovatka.skaut.cz. August 1, 2008, archived from the original on March 24, 2012 (Czech).; accessed on March 17, 2020

Individual evidence

↑ In memory; Birthdays; Anniversary: birthday. In: KirchenZeitung Diözese Linz 2006/51. December 20, 2006, accessed March 17, 2020 .

personal data
SURNAME	Dvořák, Václav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Czech Catholic clergyman, episcopal vicar in České Budějovice
DATE OF BIRTH	December 28, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bechyně
DATE OF DEATH	July 30, 2008
Place of death	České Budějovice

[1] In memory; Birthdays; Anniversary: birthday. In: KirchenZeitung Diözese Linz 2006/51. December 20, 2006, accessed March 17, 2020 .