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The Catholic Church in the Czech Republic, joint in the national Czech Episcopal Conference, comprises : * a Latin hierarchy, consisting of two

ecclesiastical province An ecclesiastical province is one of the basic forms of jurisdiction Jurisdiction (from Latin 'law' + 'declaration') is the legal term for the legal authority granted to a legal entity to enact justice. In federations like the United State ...

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

suffragan A suffragan bishop is a type of bishop in some Christian denominations. In the Anglican Communion, a suffragan bishop is a bishop who is subordinate to a metropolitan bishop or diocesan bishop (bishop ordinary) and so is not normally jurisdictiona ...

diocese In Ecclesiastical polity, church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop. History In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided Roman province, pro ...

s * an Eastern Catholic ( Byzantine Catholic) Apostolic Exarchate, 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 (Praha) **

Roman Catholic Diocese of České Budějovice The Diocese of České Budějovice ( la, Dioecesis Budovicensis) is a Roman Catholic diocese. It is situated almost entirely in Bohemia, with only small eastern section in Moravia. The diocese was founded on 20 September 1785, and its area is 12 ...

** Roman Catholic Diocese of Hradec Králové ** Roman Catholic Diocese of Litoměřice ** Roman Catholic Diocese of Plzeň (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 churches ...

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 Brno * ...

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 epi ...

Current Eastern Catholic jurisdiction

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

Ruthenian Catholic Church

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Byzantine Rite The Byzantine Rite, also known as the Greek Rite or the Rite of Constantinople, identifies the wide range of cultural, liturgical, and canonical practices that developed in the Eastern Christianity, Eastern Christian Church of Constantinople. Th ...

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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 l ...

Defunct jurisdictions

:All Latin

Titular See

One Episcopal titular bishopric : Diocese of Litomyšl

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 Mor ...

(merged into Metropolitan Archdiocese of Olomouc)

Sources and external links

GCatholic.org - data for all sections

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Catholic dioceses