The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Olomouc ( cs, Arcidiecéze olomoucká, la, Archidioecesis Olomucensis) is a metropolitan

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of the

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of the

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in the

Czech Republic The Czech Republic, or simply Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Historically known as Bohemia, it is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the southeast. The ...

. It has its seat in

Olomouc Olomouc (, , ; german: Olmütz; pl, Ołomuniec ; la, Olomucium or ''Iuliomontium'') is a city in the Czech Republic. It has about 99,000 inhabitants, and its larger urban zone has a population of about 384,000 inhabitants (2019). Located on t ...

Special churches

Its

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is Cathedral of St. Wenceslaus in Olomouc and it has three Marian

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s: * Basilica of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Hostýn,

Zlín Region Zlín Region ( cs, Zlínský kraj; , ) is an administrative unit ( cs, kraj) of the Czech Republic, located in the south-eastern part of the historical region of Moravia. It is named after its capital Zlín. Together with the Olomouc Region it f ...

* Basilica of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and Saints Cyril and Methodius in

Velehrad Velehrad is a municipality and village in Uherské Hradiště District in the Zlín Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,100 inhabitants. It is known as a pilgrimage site. Geography Most of the municipality lies in the Chřiby highlands. ...

, Zlín Region * Basilica of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary in Olomouc, Olomouc Region

Statistics

As of 2015, it pastorally served 746,900 Catholics (53.0% of 1,410,000 total) on 10,018 km² in 418 parishes and 2 missions with 343 priests (246 diocesan, 97 religious), 33 deacons, 326 lay religious (117 brothers, 209 sisters) and 19 seminarians.

Ecclesiastical province

Its

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sees are : *

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 ...

History

Established in 1063 as Diocese of Olomouc / Olomucen(sis) (Latin), on territory split off from the then

Diocese 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. Vi ...

(now Metropolitan) and promoted on 5 December 1777 to Metropolitan Archdiocese of Olomouc / Olomucen(sis) (Latin) (lost territory to establish Diocese of Brno). In 1788 it gained territory from the

Diocese of Wrocław In 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 provinces were administratively associate ...

(Breslau, Silesia), in 1863 exchanged territory with Moravian

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 ...

. * 15 March 1945: Lost territory to establish

Apostolic Administration of Opole The Roman Catholic Diocese of Opole ( la, Opoliensis) is a diocese located in the city of Opole in the Ecclesiastical province of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Katowice, Katowice in Poland. History * 1945: Established as Apostolic Administration ...

* 31 May 1978: Gained territory from the suppressed

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* It was visited

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in April 1990 and May 1995. * 30 May 1996: Lost territory to establish Diocese of Ostrava-Opava as its suffragan

Episcopal ordinaries

;Suffragan Bishops of Olomouc * Jan (John) (1063–1085) * Vezel (1088–1091) * Ondřej (1091–1096) * Jindřich (1096–1099) * Petr (1099–1104) * Jan (1104–1126) * Jindřich Zdík,

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(O. Praem.) (1126–1151) * Jan (1151–1157) * Jan of Litomyšl (1157–1172) * Dětleb (1172–1182) * Pelhřim (1182–1184) * Kaim of Bohemia (1184–1194) * Engelbert von Brabant (1194–1199) * Jan Bavor (1199–1201) * Robert (1201–1240) * Father Wilhelm (1241–1245 ''not possessed'') * Konrad von Friedberg (1241–1245) * ... ** Auxiliary Bishop: Vilem Kolina, O.E.S.A. (16 May 1442 – 1482?) * ... ** Auxiliary Bishop: André Byssmann, O.E.S.A. (21 June 1482 – 1501) * * ... * Cardinal Franz (Seraph) von Dietrichstein (1599.09.01 – 1636.11.23) ** Auxiliary Bishop: Giovanni Battista Civalli, O.F.M. Conv. (1608.01.28 – 1617.01.29) ** Auxiliary Bishop: Philipp Friedrich Reichsfreiherr von Breuner (1630.09.09 – 1639.09.05) * Fr.

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(1637.11.16 – 1662.11.02) ** Auxiliary Bishop: Sigismund Graf Miutini von Spilenberg (1648.03.30 – 1653) ** Auxiliary Bishop: Johann Gobar (1652.08.26 – 1665) * Fr. Karl Joseph Erzherzog von Österreich (1663.04.23 – 1664.01.27) *

Karl Graf von Liechtenstein-Kastelkorn Karl II von Liechtenstein-Kastelkorn (1623–1695) was a Catholic priest and prince-bishop. In 1655 he was ordained priest in the Prince-Archbishopric of Salzburg (a part of today's Austria). Between 1664 and 1695 he served as Prince-Bishop of O ...

(1664.03.12 – 1695.09.23) ** Auxiliary Bishop: Alexander Dirre (1668.06.11 – 1669.11.21) ** Auxiliary Bishop: Archbishop Johann Joseph Reichsgraf von Breuner (1670.12.15 – 1695.07.04) **

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: Franciscus Antonius von und zu Losenstein (1690.11.27 – 1692.06.17) * Fr. Karl Joseph von Lothringen (1694.09.13 – 1698.09.29) ** Auxiliary Bishop: Ferdinand Schröffel (1696.12.03 – 1702.08.23) * Cardinal

Wolfgang Hannibal von Schrattenbach Wolfgang Hannibal von Schrattenbach (12 September 1660 – 22 July 1738) was a German Prince-Bishop of Olomouc, Viceroy of Naples and Cardinal. Biography He was born on 12 September 1660 in Lemberg Castle, Duchy of Styria, in the ancient Schra ...

(1711.09.15 – 1738.07.22) * Jakob Ernst Graf von Liechtenstein-Kastelkorn (1738.10.11 – 1745.03.04) * Cardinal Ferdinand Julius von Troyer (1745.12.09 – 1758.02.05) * Leopold Friedrich Reichsgraf von Egkh und Hungersbach (1758.04.27 – 1760.12.15) * Maximilian Reichsgraf von Hamilton (1761.03.04 – 1776.10.31) * Cardinal Antonín Theodor Count of Colloredo-Waldsee (1777.10.06 – 1777.12.05) ;Metropolitan Archbishops of Olomouc * Cardinal Antonín Theodor Count of Colloredo-Waldsee (1777.12.05 – 1811.09.12) * Cardinal Maria-Thaddeus von Trauttmansdorf-Wiesnberg (1811.11.26 – 1819.01.20) * Cardinal Rudolf Johannes Joseph Rainier von Habsburg-Lotharingen (1819.03.24 – 1831.07.24) **

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: Archbishop-elect Rudolf Johannes Joseph Rainier von Habsburg-Lotharingen (later Cardinal) (1805.06.24 – 1811.09.15) * Ferdinand Maria von Chotek (1832.02.24 – 1836.09.05) * Cardinal Maximilian Joseph Gottfried Sommerau Beeckh (1836.11.21 – 1853.03.31) * Cardinal Friedrich Egon von Fürstenberg (1853.06.27 – 1892.08.20) * Théodore Kohn (1893.01.16 – 1904.06.10) * Cardinal Frantisek Salesky Bauer (1904.05.10 – 1915.11.25) *

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Lev Skrbenský z Hřiště (1916.05.05 – 1920.07.06) * Antonín Cyril Stojan (1921.03.10 – 1923) * Leopoldo Precan (1923.11.10 – 1947.03.02) * Joseph Matocha (1948.03.23 – 1961.11.03) **''

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Josef Vrana (1973.02.19 – 1987.11.30)'' **''

František Vanák (1989.07.26 – 1989.12.21)'' * František Vanák (1989.12.21 – 1991.09.14) *

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

(1992.09.28 – 2022.05.13) ** Auxiliary Bishop (2017.07.05 – ...): Antonín Basler,

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of Vaga (2017.07.05 – ...) ** Auxiliary Bishop (2017.07.05 – ...): Josef Nuzík, Titular Bishop of Castra Galbæ (2017.07.05 – ...)

Auxiliary bishops

** Josef Nuzík (2017.07.05 – ) ** Antonín Basler (2017.07.05 – ) ** Josef Hrdlička (1990.03.17 – 2017.02.01) ** Archbishop

(1990.03.17 – 1992.09.28) ** Cardinal František Tomášek (1949.10.12 – 1977.12.30) ** Joseph Martin Nathan (1943.04.17 – 1947.01.30) ** Stanislav Zela (1940.10.11 – 1969.12.06) ** Giovanni Stavel (1927.04.29 – 1938.11.06) ** Josef Schinzel (1922.11.14 – 1944.07.28) ** Guglielmo Blazek (1906.12.06 – 1912.03.05) ** Carlo Wisnar (1904.11.14 – 1926.04.18) ** Jan Nepomuk Weinlich (1904.11.14 – 1905.12.24) ** Gustavo de Belrupt-Tyssac (1880.12.13 – 1895.06.09) ** Rodolpho von Thysebaert (1842.05.23 – 1868.05.12) ** Archbishop Alois Josef Schrenk (1838.02.12 – 1838.09.17) ** Bishop-elect Franz Anton Gindl (1831.09.30 – 1831.11.16) ** Ferdinand Maria von Chotek (later Archbishop) (1817.04.14 – 1831.09.30) ** Alois Jozef Krakowski von Kolowrat (later Archbishop) (1800.12.22 – 1815.03.15) ** Karl Godefried Ritter von Rosenthal (1779.03.01 – 1800.05.25) ** Joannes Wenceslaus von Freyenfels (1771.12.16 – 1776.10.17) ** Matthias Franz Reichsgraf von Chorinsky (1769.09.11 – 1777.12.15) ** Johann Karl Leopold Graf von Scherffenberg (1749.04.21 – 1771.04.17) ** Otto Honorius Reichsgraf von Egkh und Hungersbach (1729.08.03 – 1748.04.30) ** Franz Julian Graf von Braida (1703.06.04 – 1727)

References

External links

*
GCatholic.org, with Google map - data for all sections
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catholic-hierarchy.org
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