František Kovář (2 September 1888, in
Sebranice – 12 June 1969, in
Prague
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) was the third patriarch of the
Czechoslovak Hussite Church
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Both the Czechoslovak Hussite Church and Moravian Church trace their tradition ...
.
Hr was formerly a Czech
Roman Catholic
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reformist priest, later a theologian, journalist, translator, editor, spiritual leader of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church.
František Kovář (Doctor of Theology, PhD) was Dean of Hus's Czechoslovak Evangelical Faculty of Theology at
Charles University
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in Prague.
After death of Patriarch Gustav Adolf Procházka in 1942, the position remained vacant until 1946 when František Kovář was elected third bishop-patriarch of the Czechoslovak (Hussite) Church ruling from 1946 to 1961 setting down when he was 73 and
Miroslav Novák
Miroslav Novák (26 October 1907, Kyjov, Czechoslovakia – 5 May 2000, Rouen, France was a Czech theologian of the Old Testament, a spiritual bishop and between 1961 and 1990, the patriarch of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church.
Miroslav Novák (D ...
succeeded him as patriarch. Kovář died in 1969.
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1888 births
1969 deaths
People from Blansko District
People from the Margraviate of Moravia
20th-century Czech Roman Catholic priests
Czechoslovak Hussite Church bishops
20th-century archbishops
Czechoslovak Roman Catholic priests
Former Roman Catholics
Academic staff of Charles University