Roman Catholic Diocese of Brno

The Diocese of Brno ( Czech:: Biskupství Brněnské or Diecéze brněnská; Latin: Dioecesis Brunensis ) is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Olomouc in the Czech Republic in Brno (Brno).

Prehistory

After the shifting boundaries of the Silesian wars, the final peace in 1763 were set in Hubertusburg, the diocese borders should be adapted to the new state borders. For this 1773-1774 conducted secret negotiations between Austria, Prussia and the Holy See, which provided for the creation of the dioceses Opava and Brno, but no agreement could be reached. After the death of the Olomouc Bishop Maximilian Count von Hamilton, negotiations were resumed, but failed due to the negative attitude of Prussia, large parts of the Archdiocese of Wroclaw, which now lay in Austrian Silesia, would have had to do without. Therefore, the bohemian Queen Maria Theresa gave to the establishment of a bishopric Opava and negotiated beginning in 1777 with the Holy See to the establishment of the Diocese of Brno, the necessity of which she founded with pastoral aspects.

Foundation

Pope Pius VI. founded in the summer of 1777 for the central and southern part of Moravia, the diocese of Brno, where the circles Brno, Znojmo and Jihlava and the dominions Chirlowitz and Wischau have been assigned. At the same time he raised the bishopric of Olomouc and Brno to the Archdiocese for its suffragan.

The new Diocese of Brno consisted of 18 deaneries with 151 parishes and 28 Lokalien. Cathedral was the Brno Collegiate St. Peter and Paul. That there has existed since 1298 Kollegiatskapitel was elevated to cathedral chapter, and appointed the provost Matthias Franz Chorinsky of Ledská the first bishop.

18th and 19th centuries

Major problems arose for the newly founded diocese in the formation of priests after 1773 Jesuit colleges in Brno, Znojmo and Jihlava had been canceled. Since Brno was the seat of the Moravian Provincial Government, in 1778, the University of Olomouc was laid with the Faculty of Theology to Brno, but soon fell into disputes between Jansenists and conservative theologians, on their side Bishop Chorinsky was, but who could not prevail. The university was transferred back to Olomouc in 1782 and in the same year at the diocesan territory under the direction of Joseph II eight monasteries, including the important abbey Klosterbruck dissolved.

Chorinskýs successor Johann Baptist laugh Bauer, a supporter of the Josephine reforms, endeavored to implement these exemplary. Only in the tenure of Bishop Vincent Joseph Graf von Schrattenbach could be built in the former Dominican monastery, the Brno seminary. 1862 the deanery Wischau was spun off and zuwiesen the Archdiocese of Olomouc.

20th century

After the death of Bishop Karel Skoupý In 1972 and 1989, a see is vacant, as the communist rulers of Czechoslovakia prevented reviving. Only after the Velvet Revolution of 1989 Vojtěch Cikrle was appointed as the new Bishop of Brno and be ordained. He stands as a suffragan to the side since 1999 Petr Esterka.