Gustav Adolf Procházka (11 March 1872,

Kosmonosy Kosmonosy is a town in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 4,800 inhabitants. The town is known for its psychiatric hospital. Administrative parts The village of Horní Stakory is an administ ...

, Mladá Boleslav District, Czechoslovakia – 9 February 1942, Prague) was the second patriarch of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church. Originally a Roman Catholic priest, he became a reformist oriented clergyman, and later co-founder with

Karel Farský Karel Farský (26 July 1880, in Škodějov, Semily District, Bohemia – 12 June 1927, in Prague) was a Czech Roman Catholic priest, and later founder and first patriarch (1920) of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church. He was Bishop of the West Boh ...

of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church, a spiritual leader of the church, bishop, and eventually patriarch. Procházka (Doctor of Theology, doctor honoris) was also a theologian and professor at the Czechoslovak University Academy of Sciences. Starting 1935 until 1939 he was a professor on the Jan Hus line of theology at

Charles University ) , image_name = Carolinum_Logo.svg , image_size = 200px , established = , type = Public, Ancient , budget = 8.9 billion CZK , rector = Milena Králíčková , faculty = 4,057 , administrative_staff = 4,026 , students = 51,438 , undergr ...

's (in Czech Univerzita Karlova) Hus's Czechoslovak Evangelical Faculty of Theology (in Czech, Husovy československé evangelické fakulty bohoslovecké - HČEFB) in Prague. He served as Bishop of the diocese of the Czechoslovak (Hussite) Church in East Bohemia (1923-1928). the church was founded in 1920 separated from the Roman Catholic Church. Karel Farský became the first patriarch of the church ruling from 1923 until his death in 1927. In 1928, Gustav Adolf Procházka succeeded Patriarch Karel Farský as patriarch of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church staying in the position until his death in 1942. He concurrently held the position of Bishop of Prague and West Bohemia Diocese of the Church also from 1928 to 1942.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Prochazka, Gustav Adolf 1872 births 1942 deaths People from Kosmonosy People from the Kingdom of Bohemia 19th-century Czech Roman Catholic priests Czechoslovak Hussite Church bishops 20th-century archbishops Former Roman Catholics