Archbishop František de Paula Pištěk (; ; 6 April 1786 – 1 February 1846) was a Roman Catholic prelate, who served as a Titular Bishop of

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and Auxiliary Bishop of

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from 27 September 1824 until 24 February 1832, a Diocesan Bishop of the

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from 24 February 1832 until 1 February 1836 and as the Metropolitan Archbishop of the

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and

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of Galicia and Lodomeria from 1 February 1836 until his death on 1 February 1846.

Life

Archbishop Pištěk was born in the peasant Bohemian Roman Catholic family of Vojtěch and Anna in the present day

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. After graduation of the gymnasium education, he subsequently joined Faculty of Theology of the

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and the Major Roman Catholic Theological Seminary in

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and was ordained as

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on August 21, 1808, for the

after completed his a philosophical and theological studies. After his ordination, he served as an assistant priest, and later as a parish priest in the different parishes. In 1817 he was appointed as a dean in

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and 6 years later, in 1823, became a

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of the Metropolitan Chapter of the

in the St. Vitus Cathedral. On September 27, 1824, he was appointed by the

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as a Titular Bishop of

and Auxiliary Bishop of

. On November 14, 1824, he was consecrated as a bishop by Metropolitan Archbishop Václav Leopold Chlumčanský and other prelates of the

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. He also was a theologian and a spiritual writer, one among the founders of the "Časopis katolického duchovenstva" (Magazine of a Catholic Clergy) in 1828. In 1831 he also was appointed as a

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of his Archdiocese. On February 24, 1832, he was confirmed by the

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as a Diocesan Bishop of the

in a present-day

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and 4 years later, on February 1, 1836, with the transfer of the previous Metropolitan to another see, he was confirmed by the Holy See as a Metropolitan Archbishop of the

. Archbishop Pištěk died, while in the office, on February 1, 1846, and was buried in the crypt of the Mary Gromnicza Church.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pistek, Frantisek 1786 births 1846 deaths People from Příbram District People from the Kingdom of Bohemia Charles University alumni Archbishops of Lviv Roman Catholic archbishops in the Austrian Empire