Vratislav Štěpánek (18 June 1930,
Vrútky
Vrútky (; german: Ruttek (rare); hu, Ruttka) is a town in northern Slovakia, close to the city of Martin. It lies in the historic Turiec region.
Geography
The town lies at the confluence of Váh and the Turiec, in the Turčianska kotlina, near ...
– 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
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.
Both the Czechoslovak Hussite Church and Mo ...
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In 1989, he had been assigned as Bishop of the Brno diocese of the church, a position that he kept ten years until 1999. On 16 March 1991, he was also elected to the office of patriarch for three years until 1994, therefore, holding both offices in parallel during that period. His patriarchy was during the politically and socially aggravated period of the first phase of the post-communist changes in Czechoslovakia.
He was also a Member of the
Czech National Council
The Czech National Council ( cs, Česká národní rada, ČNR) was the legislative body of the Czech Republic since 1968 when the Czech Republic was created as a member state of Czech-Slovak federation. It was legally transformed into the Cham ...
from 1986 to 1990.
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1930 births
2013 deaths
People from Vrútky
Czechoslovak Hussite Church bishops
20th-century archbishops