Roman Catholic Diocese of Hradec Králové
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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Hradec Králové
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Hradec Králové
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Hradec Králové , German
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located in the city of Hradec Králové
in the Ecclesiastical province
of Prague in the Czech Republic.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Hradec Králové
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Hradec Králové , German
German language
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Diocese
A diocese is the district or see under the supervision of a bishop. It is divided into parishes.An archdiocese is more significant than a diocese. An archdiocese is presided over by an archbishop whose see may have or had importance due to size or historical significance...
located in the city of Hradec Králové
Hradec Králové
Hradec Králové is a city of the Czech Republic, in the Hradec Králové Region of Bohemia. The city's economy is based on food-processing technology, photochemical, and electronics manufacture. Traditional industries include musical instrument manufacturing – the best known being PETROF pianos...
in the Ecclesiastical province
Ecclesiastical Province
An ecclesiastical province is a large jurisdiction of religious government, so named by analogy with a secular province, existing in certain hierarchical Christian churches, especially in the Catholic Church and Orthodox Churches and in the Anglican Communion...
of Prague in the Czech Republic.
History
- November 10, 1664: Established as Diocese of Hradec Králové from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Praha
- On 28 June 1972 Pope Paul VIPope Paul VIPaul VI , born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini , reigned as Pope of the Catholic Church from 21 June 1963 until his death on 6 August 1978. Succeeding Pope John XXIII, who had convened the Second Vatican Council, he decided to continue it...
- by his Apostolic constitutionApostolic constitutionAn apostolic constitution is the highest level of decree issued by the Pope. The use of the term constitution comes from Latin constitutio, which referred to any important law issued by the Roman emperor, and is retained in church documents because of the inheritance that the canon law of the...
Episcoporum Poloniae coetus - redrew boundaries of a number of Polish - and their adjacent Czech and German - dioceses, disentangling the County of KladskoCounty of KladskoThe County of Kladsko was a historical administrative unit in the Kingdom of Bohemia and later in the Kingdom of Prussia with its capital at Kłodzko on the Nysa river...
area from the Diocese of Hradec Králové and assigning it to the neighbouring Archdiocese of Wrocław.
Leadership
- BishopBishopA bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight. Within the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox Churches, in the Assyrian Church of the East, in the Independent Catholic Churches, and in the...
s of Hradec Králové (Roman rite)- Archbishop Matthäus Ferdinand Sobek von Bilenberg, O.S.B. (1664.11.10 – 1669.03.11)
- Archbishop Johann Friedrich Reichsgraf von Waldstein (1668.06.16 – 1675.12.02)
- Bishop Johann Franz Christoph Freiherr von Talmberg (1676.01.15 – 1698.04.03)
- Bishop Gottfried Freiherr Kapaun von Swoykow (1698.09.23 – 1701.09.18)
- Bishop Tobias Johannes Becker (1701.11.24 – 1710.09.11)
- Bishop Johann Adam Reichsgraf von Wratislaw von Mitrowitz (1710.11.12 – 1721.09.24)
- Bishop Wenzel Franz Karl Reichsfreiherr Koschinsky von Koschín (1721.01.09 – 1731.03.26)
- Bishop Moritz Adolf Karl Herzog von Sachsen-Zeitz (1731.10.08 – 1733.10.01)
- Bishop Johann Joseph von Wratislaw von Mitrowitz (1733.07.06 – 1753.09.11)
- Archbishop Anton Peter Graf Przichowsky von Przichowitz (1753.09.29 – 1763.10.26)
- Bishop Hermann Hannibal Reichsgraf von Blümegen (1763.11.05 – 1774.10.17)
- Bishop Johann Andreas Kaiser (1775.05.14 – 1776.05.05)
- Archbishop Joseph Adam Graf Arco (1776.07.15 – 1780.01.01)
- Bishop Johann Leopold Ritter von Hay (1780.07.29 – 1794.06.01)
- Cardinal Maria-Thaddeus von Trauttmansdorf-Wiesnberg (1795.07.01 – 1811.11.26)
- Archbishop Alois Jozef Krakowski von KolowratAlois Jozef Krakowski von KolowratAlois Josef hrabě Krakovský z Kolovrat or Krakowský z Kolowrat was the Roman Catholic archbishop of Prague from 1831 to 1833.-Biography:...
(1815.03.15 – 1831.02.28) - Bishop Karel Boromejský Hanl z Kirchtreu (1832.02.24 – 1874)
- Bishop Josef Jan Hais (1875.07.05 – 1892)
- Bishop Eduard Jan Brynyck (1893.01.19 – 1902)
- Bishop Giuseppe Doubrava (1903.06.22 – 1921.02.22)
- CardinalCardinal (Catholicism)A cardinal is a senior ecclesiastical official, usually an ordained bishop, and ecclesiastical prince of the Catholic Church. They are collectively known as the College of Cardinals, which as a body elects a new pope. The duties of the cardinals include attending the meetings of the College and...
Karel KašparKarel KašparKarel Boromejský Kašpar was a Czech Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Prague from 1931 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1935.-Biography:...
(1921.06.13 – 1931.10.22) - Archbishop Karel Otcenášek (Apostolic Administrator 1950.03.30 – 1989.12.21)
- Bishop Maurizio Picha (1931.10.22 – 1956.11.12)
- Archbishop Karel OtcenášekKarel OtčenášekKarel Otčenášek was a Czech prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.Otčenášek was born in České Meziříčí, Czech Republic and was ordained a priest on 17 March 1945. He was Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Hradec Králové on 30 March 1950 and was ordained bishop on 30 April 1950...
(1989.12.21 – 1998.06.06) - Bishop Dominik DukaDominik DukaDominik Jaroslav Duka O.P. Dominik Jaroslav Duka O.P. Dominik Jaroslav Duka O.P. (born 26 April 1943, Hradec Králové, Czechoslovakia (now Hradec Králové, Czech Republic) is the 36th Archbishop of Prague since his appointment by Pope Benedict XVI on 13 February 2010. He had previously served as...
, O.P. (6 June 1998 - 13 February 2010) - Bishop Jan VokálJan VokálJan Vokal is the current Bishop of Hradec Králové since his appointment by Pope Benedict XVI on 3 March 2011. He had previously served as an official in the Secretariat of State....
(3 March 2011 - )