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. Josef Nuzík (born 25 July 1966) is a Czech prelate of the

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. He was appointed the Metropolitan Archbishop of

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on 9 February 2024.

Biography

Josef Nuzík was born on 25 July 1966, in

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and raised in a family of 11 children. After finishing vocational school in 1984, he worked at an engineering company and went through compulsory military service. In 1989 he started his preparation for the priesthood at a theological faculty in Litoměřice and later in Olomouc, where he was awarded a master's degree. He was ordained a deacon in 1994, served in

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, and stayed in this parish also after the priestly ordination by Archbishop

Jan Graubner Jan Graubner (born 29 August 1948) is a Czech prelate of the Catholic Church who has been Archbishop of Prague since July 2022. He was Archbishop of Olomouc in the Czech Republic from 1992 to 2022, after serving as an auxiliary there for two yea ...

in June 1995. Since 1996, he served as a parish vicar in

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; a year later, he was appointed an administrator of

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and stayed here until 2003, when he was assigned to the pilgrimage site Štípa and, at the same time, appointed a dean of the

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deanery. In 2005 he was called to serve as a vice-rector of the Archbishop's Priestly Seminary in Olomouc and worked here for 4 years. Archbishop Graubner appointed him his vicar general in 2009, he is also a canon of the Metropolitan Chapter of St. Wenceslaus in Olomouc. On 5 July 2017, he was appointed titular bishop of Castra Galbae and auxiliary bishop of

, receiving episcopal consecration the following 14 October. On 4 July 2022, he was elected diocesan administrator of the archdiocese of Olomouc. His installation as the archbishop was on 14 April 2024.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Nuzik Josef 1966 births Living people People from Uherské Hradiště District Czech archbishops Roman Catholic archbishops of Olomouc 21st-century Roman Catholic archbishops in the Czech Republic.