Old Catholic Church of the Czech Republic

The Old Catholic Church in the Czech Republic ( Starokatolická církev v České Republice ) is an independent member church of the Union of Utrecht of the Old Catholic Churches.

History

The Old Catholic Church in the Czech Republic has its origins in the Old Catholic Church of Austria-Hungary, whose successor on the territory of the Republic of Austria, the Old Catholic Church of Austria is. The diocese warning village they formed their own jurisdiction area for the Old Catholic German Bohemia, was the center in warning village in northern Bohemia.

After the expulsion of German Bohemia, the seat of church government was moved to Prague. Today's Czech Old Catholic National Church emerged after the split of Czechoslovakia. In Prague there is the Ordinariate and the cathedral church of sv. Vavřince na Petříně ( German: Lorenz Church ). The Old Catholic Church in the village warning was determined in the late 1990s to the Co-Cathedral.

Presence

At the head of the church is Bishop Dušan Hejbal, who heads the diocese with a ten-member synod council. In 2001, it hosted the first Old Catholic in a country of the former Eastern Bloc. In autumn 2003, the first woman received in its history, the diaconate.

Bishops

  • Miloš Čech (Administrator)
  • 1922-1946 Alois Pašek
  • V. J. Ráb (Administrator)
  • 1968-1991 Augustin Podolák
  • 1991-0000 Dušan Hejbal
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