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
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Prague
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from 27 September 1824 until 24 February 1832, a Diocesan Bishop of the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Tarnów
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from 24 February 1832 until 1 February 1836 and as the Metropolitan Archbishop of the
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lviv
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and
Primate
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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
Central Bohemian Region
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. After graduation of the gymnasium education, he subsequently joined Faculty of Theology of the
Charles University
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and the Major Roman Catholic Theological Seminary in
Prague
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and was ordained as
priest
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on August 21, 1808, for the
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Prague
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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
Přeštice
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and 6 years later, in 1823, became a
canon
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of the Metropolitan Chapter of the
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Prague
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in the
St. Vitus Cathedral.
On September 27, 1824, he was appointed by the
Pope Leo XII
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as a Titular Bishop of
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and Auxiliary Bishop of
Prague
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. On November 14, 1824, he was consecrated as a bishop by Metropolitan Archbishop
Václav Leopold Chlumčanský and other prelates of the
Roman Catholic Church
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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
Vicar general
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of his Archdiocese.
On February 24, 1832, he was confirmed by the
Holy See
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as a Diocesan Bishop of the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Tarnów
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in a present-day
Poland
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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
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lviv
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.
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