Archdiocese of Olomouc

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Diocese of Olomouc
Dioecesis Olomucensis
Statistics
Country: Czech Republic
Rite: Latin Rite
Area: 10,088 km²
Population:
  Total:
  Catholics:
1,376,000 (2004)
732,000 (53.2%)
Cathedral: Katedrála sv. Václava
(Cathedral of St. Wenceslaus)
Ordinaries
Bishop: Jan Graubner
Auxiliary Bishop: Josef Hrdlicka

The Archdiocese of Olomouc is a archdiocese of the Catholic Church in the Czech Republic. Not much is known about the beginnings of the Diocese of Olomouc. It was reestablished in 1063 and in 1777 it was elevated to an archdiocese.

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[edit] Special Churches

  • Minor Basilica:
    • Bazilika Nanebevzetí Panny Marie, Svatý Hostýn, Zlínský kraj
    • Bazilika Nanebevzetí Panny Marie a sv. Cyrila a Metoděje, Velehrad, Zlínský kraj
    • Bazilika Navštívení Panny Marie, Olomouc, Olomoucký kraj

[edit] Leadership

  • ArchBishops of Olomouc (Roman rite)
    • Archbishop Jan Graubner (since 1992.09.28)
    • Archbishop František Vanák (1989.12.21 – 1991.09.14)
    • Archbishop František Vanák (Apostolic Administrator 1989.07.26 – 1989.12.21)
    • Bishop Josef Vrana (Apostolic Administrator 1973.02.19 – 1987.11.30)
    • Archbishop Joseph Matocha (1948.03.23 – 1961.11.03)
    • Archbishop Leopoldo Precan (1923.11.10 – 1947.03.02)
    • Archbishop Antonio Cirillo Stojan (1921.03.10 – 1923)
    • Cardinal Lev Skrbenský z Hřiště (1916.05.05 – 1920.07.06)
    • Cardinal Frantisek Salesky Bauer (1904.05.10 – 1915.11.25)
    • Archbishop Théodore Kohn (1893.01.16 – 1904.06.10)
    • Cardinal Friedrich Egon von Fürstenberg (1853.06.27 – 1892.08.20)
    • Cardinal Maximilian Joseph Gottfried Sommerau Beeckh (1836.11.21 – 1853.03.31)
    • Archbishop Ferdinand Maria von Chotek (1832.02.24 – 1836.09.05)
    • Cardinal Rudolf Johannes Joseph Rainier von Habsburg-Lotharingen (1819.03.24 – 1831.07.24)
    • Cardinal Maria-Thaddeus von Trauttmansdorf-Wiesnberg (1811.11.26 – 1819.01.20)
    • Cardinal Antonín Theodor Hrabí Colloredo-Waldsee (1777.12.05 – 1811.09.12)
  • Bishops of Olomouc (Roman rite)
    • Cardinal Antonín Theodor Hrabí Colloredo-Waldsee (1777.10.06 – 1777.12.05)
    • Bishop Maximilian Reichsgraf von Hamilton (1761.03.04 – 1776.10.31)
    • Bishop Leopold Friedrich Reichsgraf von Egkh und Hungersbach (1758.04.27 – 1760.12.15)
    • Cardinal Ferdinand Julius von Troyer (1745.12.09 – 1758.02.05)
    • Archbishop Jakob Ernst Graf von Liechtenstein-Kastelkorn (1738.10.11 – 1745.03.04)
    • Cardinal Wolfgang Hannibal von Schrattenbach (1711.09.15 – 1738.07.22)
    • Fr. Karl Joseph von Lothringen (1694.09.13 – 1698.09.29)
    • Bishop Karl Graf von Liechtenstein-Kastelkorn (1664.03.12 – 1695.09.23)
    • Fr. Karl Joseph Erzherzog von Österreich (1663.04.23 – 1664.01.27)
    • Fr. Leopold Wilhelm Erzherzog von Österreich (1637.11.16 – 1662.11.02)
    • Cardinal Franz Seraph von Dietrichstein (1599.09.01 – 1636.11.23)

See also: List of bishops and archbishops of Olomouc

[edit] Suffragan Dioceses

[edit] See Also

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