Miloslav Vlk
Cardinal Miloslav Vlk ( born May 17, 1932 in Líšnice at Milevsko ) is Emeritus Archbishop of Prague.
- 5.1 Membership in the Roman Curia
- 5.2 Memberships in associations
Life
Miloslav Vlk attended high school in Budweis, which he completed in 1952 with the Abitur. After February 1948, the Communist coup in Czechoslovakia religious freedom was restricted and persecuted the Catholic Church. Therefore it was not possible Vlk, his desire to study according to Catholic theology to become a priest. He worked as a mechanic in a car factory and then made from military service. In 1955 he was able to begin studying the Archival Science at the Charles University in Prague, where he graduated in 1960 with a doctorate. He then worked for four years as an archivist at various archives in South Bohemia.
In 1964 he succeeded finally to study as seminarian at the Theological College in Leitmeritz. 1968, the year of efforts to democratize and liberalize Czechoslovakia, Miloslav Vlk was ordained priest by the Bishop Josef Hlouch later Budweiser, whose secretary he became. After the suppression of the Prague Spring in 1971 he had to leave this place. 1971-1972 he worked as a parish administrator in Lažiště, then to 1978 in Stary Rožmitál. However, his successful pastoral care as well as its acceptance and reputation among the faithful was the state authorities soon politically suspect. From 1978 to 1989 him any priestly activities were prohibited.
Vlk worked from 1978 first eight years as a window cleaner in Prague and then as an archivist at a bank. But secretly he was also a priest and intensified during this time his contacts with the Focolare Movement, which had been present since the early 1960s in Czechoslovakia.
On January 1, 1989, at the beginning of the turn, give him permission to exercise the priesthood was given back on probation for the period of one year. He was pastor in Žihobce and Bukovník in the district Klatovy and later in Čachrov and simultaneously. Běšiny in the parishes, Javorná, Železná Ruda and Strážov
Bishop of Budweis
On February 14, 1990wurde Miloslav Vlk, just one year after the abolition of his office ban, appointed bishop of the Diocese of Budweis. He received his episcopal consecration on 31 March 1990, the then Auxiliary Bishop of Prague and later successor to the episcopal throne Budweiser Antonín Liska; Co-consecrators were Franz Xaver Eder, Bishop of Passau, Franz Žak, Bishop of St. Pölten, Maximilian Aichern, Bishop of Linz, and Ján Sokol, Archbishop of Trnava.
Archbishop of Prague
Following the resignation of the Archbishop of Prague František Tomasek Pope John Paul II appointed on 27 March 1991 Miloslav Vlk as his successor. A position he took up on 1 June 1991. In the same year the Czech Bishops' Conference elected him as their chairman. Pope John Paul II took him on 26 November 1994 as a cardinal priest with the titular church of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme to the College of Cardinals.
1993-2001 Vlk held the office of the Council of European Bishops' Conferences of the President. After the death of Bishop Klaus Hemmerle was Cardinal Vlk his successor as Moderator of those bishops who are linked to the Focolare Movement.
Archbishop Vlk has also made a major contribution in the process of reconciliation between the Czech Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany. He says that he speaks German and Italian and understands beyond Russian, French, Esperanto and Latin.
Having reached the age limit of 75 years Miloslav Vlk offered in April 2007 the Pope his resignation as Archbishop of Prague on. Pope Benedict XVI. but asked him to stay another two years in office. On February 13, 2010 Benedict XVI accepted. then his resignation to.
Cardinal Vlk is Chairman of the International Award Committee of Adalbert Foundation.
Honors
Honorary doctorates
Order
Memberships
Membership in the Roman Curia
Memberships in associations
- Since 1991, the Association of Scientific Catholic student associations Unitas
- Honorary Member of the Exile P.E.N.