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The Catholic Church in the Czech Republic, joint in the national Czech

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, comprises : * a Latin hierarchy, consisting of two

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s, each headed by a Metropolitan Archbishopric, with a total of six

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s * an Eastern Catholic (

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)

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, covering the whole

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. There are no other exempt Latin jurisdictions. There is an Apostolic Nunciature to the Czech Republic as papal diplomatic representation (embassy-level).

Current Latin dioceses

Ecclesiastical Province of Bohemia (Prague)

* Metropolitan

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. Vit ...

(Praha) ** Roman Catholic Diocese of České Budějovice **

Roman Catholic Diocese of Hradec Králové The Roman Catholic Diocese of Hradec Králové la, Reginae Gradecen(sis), German: Königgrätz } is a diocese located in the city of Hradec Králové in the Ecclesiastical province of Prague in the Czech Republic. History * November 10, 1664: E ...

Roman Catholic Diocese of Litoměřice The Roman Catholic Diocese of Litoměřice la, Litomericen(sis) is a diocese located in the city of Litoměřice in the Ecclesiastical province of Prague in the Czech Republic. History * July 3, 1655: Established as Diocese of Litoměřice fro ...

Roman Catholic Diocese of Plzeň The Roman Catholic Diocese of Plzeň ( la, Pilznen(sis)) is a diocese located in the city of Plzeň in the Ecclesiastical province of Prague in the Czech Republic. History * May 31, 1993: Established as Diocese of Plzeň from the Diocese of Če ...

(Pilsen)

Ecclesiastical Province of Moravia and Czech Silesia (Olomouc)

* Metropolitan

Roman Catholic Archdiocese 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 churche ...

Roman Catholic Diocese of Brno The Roman Catholic Diocese of Brno ( la, Brun(ensis)) is a diocese located in the city of Brno in the ecclesiastical province of Olomouc in the Czech Republic. History * 1296: A collegiate (latter the cathedral) chapter established in Brn ...

Roman Catholic 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 ...

Current Eastern Catholic jurisdiction

:''exempt, i.e. directly dependent on the Holy See''

Ruthenian Catholic Church

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Apostolic Exarchate in the Czech Republic The Apostolic Exarchate of the Greek Catholic Church in the Czech Republic is an Eastern Catholic institution overseeing Catholics of byzantine-slavonic rite in the Czech Republic. It uses the localized Byzantine Rite in archaic Church Slavonic ...

Defunct jurisdictions

:All Latin

Titular See

One Episcopal

titular bishopric A titular see in various churches is an episcopal see of a former diocese that no longer functions, sometimes called a "dead diocese". The ordinary or hierarch of such a see may be styled a "titular metropolitan" (highest rank), "titular archbish ...

Diocese of Litomyšl The Roman Catholic Diocese of Litomyšl (Czech; Leitomischl in German) was a medieval Latin Catholic bishopric in Litomyšl, Bohemia (then Holy Roman Empire, now Czech Republic) and remains a Latin Catholic titular see. History * On April 30, 1 ...

Other

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 M ...

(merged into Metropolitan Archdiocese of Olomouc)

Sources and external links

GCatholic.org - data for all sections

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Catholic dioceses