Miroslav Novák (26 October 1907,
Kyjov
Kyjov (; german: Gaya or Geyen) is a town in Hodonín District in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 11,000 inhabitants. The historic town centre is well preserved and is protected by law as an urban monument zone.
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Rouen
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France
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was a Czech theologian of the Old Testament, a spiritual bishop and between 1961 and 1990, the patriarch of the
Czechoslovak Hussite Church
The Czechoslovak Hussite Church ( cs, Církev československá husitská, ''CČSH'' or ''CČH'') is a Christian church that separated from the Catholic Church after World War I in former Czechoslovakia.
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Miroslav Novák (Doctor of Theology and Doctor of Philosophy – PhD) was the Bishop of the Prague Diocese of the church from 1946 to 1961 when he was elected patriarch becoming the fourth patriarch of the church since its establishment in 1920.
In 1990 he set down when he was 83 years old and
Vratislav Štěpánek
Vratislav Štěpánek (18 June 1930, Vrútky – 21 July 2013, Šlapanice) was a clergyman, a bishop, and for a period from 1991 to 1994 the fifth patriarch of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church.
In 1989, he had been assigned as Bishop of the Brno ...
was elected as patriarch.
Patriarch Miroslav Novák spent his last years in Prague and in Rouen, France, where he died on 5 May 2000 at the age of 93.
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1907 births
2000 deaths
People from Kyjov
People from the Margraviate of Moravia
Czechoslovak Hussite Church bishops
20th-century archbishops