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Bishopric Of Olomouc
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Olomouc ( cs, Arcidiecéze olomoucká, la, Archidioecesis Olomucensis) is a metropolitan archdiocese of the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church in the Czech Republic. It has its seat in Olomouc. Special churches Its cathedral is Cathedral of St. Wenceslaus in Olomouc and it has three Marian minor basilicas: * Basilica of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Hostýn, Zlín Region * Basilica of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and Saints Cyril and Methodius in Velehrad, Zlín Region * Basilica of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary in Olomouc, Olomouc Region Statistics As of 2015, it pastorally served 746,900 Catholics (53.0% of 1,410,000 total) on 10,018 km² in 418 parishes and 2 missions with 343 priests (246 diocesan, 97 religious), 33 deacons, 326 lay religious (117 brothers, 209 sisters) and 19 seminarians. Ecclesiastical province Its suffragan sees are : * Roman Catholic Diocese of Brno * Roman Catholic Diocese of Ostrava-Opava Histor ...
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Czech Republic
The Czech Republic, or simply Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Historically known as Bohemia, it is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the southeast. The Czech Republic has a hilly landscape that covers an area of with a mostly temperate continental and oceanic climate. The capital and largest city is Prague; other major cities and urban areas include Brno, Ostrava, Plzeň and Liberec. The Duchy of Bohemia was founded in the late 9th century under Great Moravia. It was formally recognized as an Imperial State of the Holy Roman Empire in 1002 and became a kingdom in 1198. Following the Battle of Mohács in 1526, the whole Crown of Bohemia was gradually integrated into the Habsburg monarchy. The Protestant Bohemian Revolt led to the Thirty Years' War. After the Battle of White Mountain, the Habsburgs consolidated their rule. With the dissolution of the Holy Empire in 1806, the Cro ...
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Roman Catholic Archdiocese Of Prague
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Prague (Praha) ( cs, Arcidiecéze pražská, la, Archidioecesis Pragensis) is a Metropolitan Catholic archdiocese of the Latin Rite in Bohemia, in the Czech Republic. The cathedral archiepiscopal see is St. Vitus Cathedral, in the Bohemian and Czech capital Prague, entirely situated inside the Prague Castle complex. Jan Graubner is the current archbishop. Ecclesiastical province Its suffragan sees are : * Roman Catholic Diocese of České Budějovice (Budweis) * Roman Catholic Diocese of Hradec Králové (Königgrätz) * Roman Catholic Diocese of Litoměřice (Leitmeritz) * Roman Catholic Diocese of Plzeň (Pilsen) History * The diocese was founded in 973 as the Diocese of Prague, through the joint efforts of Duke Boleslav II of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperors Otto I and Otto II. It was a suffragan of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Mainz (Mayence, Germany, also the Electorate of Mainz) * It lost territories in 1000 to establish the Dioces ...
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Karl Graf Von Liechtenstein-Kastelkorn
Karl II von Liechtenstein-Kastelkorn (1623–1695) was a Catholic priest and prince-bishop. In 1655 he was ordained priest in the Prince-Archbishopric of Salzburg (a part of today's Austria). Between 1664 and 1695 he served as Prince-Bishop of Olomouc in the Moravia (a part of today's Czech Republic). A cultured man who employed in his ''Kapelle'' Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, the virtuoso violinist and composer, he was also among other things a collector of music, and maintained close ties with the imperial court in Vienna throughout his career. In the period of his episcopacy many people were executed for alleged witchcraft, including the dean Dean may refer to: People * Dean (given name) * Dean (surname), a surname of Anglo-Saxon English origin * Dean (South Korean singer), a stage name for singer Kwon Hyuk * Dean Delannoit, a Belgian singer most known by the mononym Dean Titles * ... Christoph Alois Lautner who was sentenced to death and burned alive by the inquisit ...
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Archduke Charles Joseph Of Austria
Charles Joseph (german: Karl Joseph) (7 August 1649 – 27 January 1664) was an Archduke of Austria and Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (1662–64). He was also the bishop of Olmütz, and Breslau, Passau. Charles Joseph was born in Vienna as the son of Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor and his first cousin, Maria Leopoldine of Austria. His mother died shortly after giving birth to him. Charles Joseph, himself, died in his early teens in Linz Linz ( , ; cs, Linec) is the capital of Upper Austria and third-largest city in Austria. In the north of the country, it is on the Danube south of the Czech border. In 2018, the population was 204,846. In 2009, it was a European Capital .... Ancestry References {{DEFAULTSORT:Charles Joseph, Archduke of Austria 1649 births 1664 deaths 17th-century House of Habsburg 17th-century Roman Catholic bishops in the Holy Roman Empire Grand Masters of the Teutonic Order Nobility from Vienna Pri ...
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Archduke Leopold Wilhelm Of Austria
Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (5 January 1614 – 20 November 1662), younger brother of Emperor Ferdinand III, was an Austrian soldier, administrator and patron of the arts. He held a number of military commands, with limited success, and served as Governor of the Spanish Netherlands, before returning to Vienna in 1656. Despite being nominated as Holy Roman Emperor after Ferdinand's death in 1657, he stood aside in favour of his nephew Leopold I. His main interest was in art, and he patronised artists including David Teniers the Younger, Frans Snyders, Peter Snayers, Daniel Seghers, Peter Franchoys, Frans Wouters, Jan van den Hoecke and Pieter Thijs. His collection of 17th century Venetian and Dutch paintings are now held by the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. Life Born at Wiener Neustadt on 5 January, 1614, he was the sixth of seven children born to Emperor Ferdinand II (1578-1637) and his first wife, Maria Anna of Bavaria (1574–1616). His elder brother becam ...
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Franz Von Dietrichstein
Franz Seraph von Dietrichstein ( cs, František Serafín z Ditrichštejna, 22 August 1570 – 19 September 1636), of the Austrian and Moravian House of Dietrichstein, was Prince of Dietrichstein, Archbishop of Olomouc, Governor (Landeshauptmann) of Moravia and a Cardinal. Early life Dietrichstein was born on 22 August 1570 in Madrid, the 8th of 12 children born to Adam von Dietrichstein, the Holy Roman Empire's then-ambassador to Spain. He studied in Vienna and Prague. Then in 1588, at age 18, he moved to Rome to study at the Collegium Germanicum. While in Rome be befriended Cardinal Ippolito Aldobrandini who was elected pope in 1592 and took the name Pope Clement VIII. Dietrichstein became the new pope's chamberlain and worked to represent the interests of his native Bohemia as canon of the cathedral chapters of Olomouc, Wroclav, Passau and Leitmeritz.
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Norbertines
The Order of Canons Regular of Prémontré (), also known as the Premonstratensians, the Norbertines and, in Britain and Ireland, as the White Canons (from the colour of their habit), is a religious order of canons regular of the Catholic Church founded in Prémontré near Laon in 1120 by Norbert of Xanten, who later became Archbishop of Magdeburg. Premonstratensians are designated by ''OPraem'' (''Ordo Praemonstratensis'') following their name. Norbert was a friend of Bernard of Clairvaux and was largely influenced by the Cistercian ideals as to both the manner of life and the government of his order. As the Premonstratensians are not monks but canons regular, their work often involves preaching and the exercising of pastoral ministry; they frequently serve in parishes close to their abbeys or priories. History The order was founded in 1120. Saint Norbert had made various efforts to introduce a strict form of canonical life in various communities of canons in Germany; in 1120 he ...
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Jindřich Zdík
Jindřich Zdík (also anglicized as ''Henry Zdík'') (c. 1083 – 1150 in Prague) was bishop of Olomouc from 1126 to 1150. Biography Zdík went on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1137/1138. While he was there, Rorgo Fretellus of Nazareth dedicated to him his ''Description of the Holy Places''.Benjamin Z. Kedar (2000), "Fretellus", in John Block Friedman and Kristen Mossler Figg, eds., ''Trade, Travel and Exploration in the Middle Ages: An Encyclopedia'' (London and New York: Routledge), p. 202. A deed of Jindřich Zdík from 1141 (originally erroneously dated to 1131), in which he transfers his seat to the newly built Saint Wenceslas Cathedral and lists the estates of the Roman Catholic Church in Moravia, is an important and valuable historical document, which is for many Moravian villages and towns the first written mention of the settlement. In 1141, with papal authorization, Zdík undertook a mission against the Prussians, leading directly to his involvement with the Wendish ...
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Diocese Of Ostrava-Opava
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Ostrava-Opava ( la, Ostravien(sis)-Opavien(sis) ) is a suffragan Latin diocese in the Ecclesiastical province of the Archdiocese of Olomouc in Moravskoslezský kraj, Moravia, in the Czech Republic. The cathedral episcopal see is Katedrála Božského Spasitele, dedicated to the Divine Saviour, in Ostrava, and it also has * a Co-Cathedral, the Konkatedrála Nanebevzetí Panny Marie, in Opava, dedicated to the Virgin Mary * a Minor Basilica: Bazilika Navštívení Panny Marie, in Frýdek-Místek, dedicated to the Virgin Mary History * Established on May 30, 1996 as Diocese of Ostrava–Opava / Ostravien(sis)–Opavien(sis) (Latin), on territory split off from its Metropolitan, the Archdiocese of Olomouc, which territory was part until 1978 of the then Diocese of Wroclaw (Breslau, Poland) while that comprised all Silesia. Statistics As per 2014, it pastorally served 429,300 Catholics (32.7% of 1,314,000 total) on 6,150 km² in 276 parishes ...
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Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II ( la, Ioannes Paulus II; it, Giovanni Paolo II; pl, Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his death in April 2005, and was later canonised as Pope Saint John Paul II. He was elected pope by the second papal conclave of 1978, which was called after John Paul I, who had been elected in August to succeed Pope Paul VI, died after 33 days. Cardinal Wojtyła was elected on the third day of the conclave and adopted the name of his predecessor in tribute to him. Born in Poland, John Paul II was the first non-Italian pope since Adrian VI in the 16th century and the second-longest-serving pope after Pius IX in modern history. John Paul II attempted to improve the Catholic Church's relations with Judaism, Islam, and the Eastern Orthodox Church. He maintained the church's previous positions on such matters as abortion, artificia ...
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Apostolic Administration Of Český Těšín
The Apostolic Administration of Český Těšín was a short-lived (1947–1978) pre-diocesan Latin Catholic jurisdiction in Czechoslovakia. History * Established in 1947 as the Apostolic Administration of Český Těšín (named after the Moravian-Silesian Region see, alias Teschen), on canonical territory split off from the German and then Polish Archdiocese of Breslau, renamed as Archdiocese of Wrocław in 1972. * Suppressed on 31 May 1978, its territory being merged into the Czech Metropolitan Archdiocese of Olomouc (Olomütz, also Moravia). Ordinaries (both Roman Rite) ;''Apostolic Administrators of Český Těšín'' * František Onderek (1947 – 24 October 1962) *''Uncanonical'': Antonín Veselý (1962–1977) See also * List of Catholic dioceses in the Czech Republic * List of Catholic dioceses in Poland * List of Catholic dioceses (structured view) As of October 5, 2021, the Catholic Church in its entirety comprises 3,171 ecclesiastical jurisdictions, in ...
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