Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Olomouc

Archdiocese of Olomouc Dioecesis Olomucensis Arcidiecéze Olomouc
Location
Country	Czech Republic
Statistics
Area	10,018 km2 (3,868 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2013) 1,407,000 745,200 (53%)
Information
Rite	Latin Rite
Cathedral	Katedrála sv. Václava (Cathedral of St. Wenceslaus)
Patron saint	St Wenceslaus
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Metropolitan Archbishop	Jan Graubner
Auxiliary Bishops	Josef Hrdlicka
Map
Website
Website of the Archdiocese

Saint Wenceslas Cathedral

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Olomouc (Czech: Arcidiecéze olomoucká, Latin: Archidioecesis Olomucensis) is the Metropolitan archdiocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in Moravia, part of the Czech Republic.

Special churches

Its Cathedral archiepiscopal see is Katedrála sv. Václava Katedrála sv. Václava, in Olomouc, Olomoucký kraj and also has three Marian Minor basilicas:

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

Statistics

As per 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

The Metropolitan's Suffragan sees are :

• Roman Catholic Diocese of Brno
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Ostrava-Opava

History

Established in 1063 as Diocese of Olomouc / Olomucen(sis) (Latin), on territory split off from the then Diocese of Praha (Prague, capital of Bohemia, now Metropolitan) and Promoted on 1777.12.05 as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Olomouc / Olomucen(sis) (Latin) (lost territory to establish Diocese of Brno). In 1788 Gained territory from the Diocese of Wrocław (Breslau, Silesia), in 1863 exchanged territory with Moravian Diocese of Brno.

• 1945.03.15: Lost territory to establish Apostolic Administration of Upper Silesia
• 1978.05.31: Gained territory from the suppressed Apostolic Administration of Český Těšín
• It enjoyed Papal visits from Pope John Paul II in April 1990 and May 1995.
• 1996.05.30: Lost territory to establish Diocese of Ostrava-Opava as its suffragan

Episcopal Ordinaries

(all Roman rite)

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, Norbertines (O. Praem.) (1126 – 1151)
• Jan (1151 – 1157)
• Jan z Litomyšle (1157 – 1172)
• Dětleb (1172 – 1182)
• Pelhřim (1182 – 1184)
• Kaim von Böhmen 'Chaim 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. (1442.05.16 – 1482?)
• ...
  • Auxiliary Bishop: André Byssmann, O.E.S.A. (1482.06.21 – 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. Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (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 (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)
  • Coadjutor Bishop: 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 (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)
  • Coadjutor Archbishop: 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)
• Cardinal 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)
  • Apostolic Administrator Josef Vrana (1973.02.19 – 1987.11.30)
  • Apostolic Administrator František Vanák (1989.07.26 – 1989.12.21)
• František Vanák (1989.12.21 – 1991.09.14)
• Jan Graubner (1992.09.28 - ...)
  • Auxiliary Bishop (2017.07.05 – ...): Antonín Basler, Titular Bishop of Vaga (2017.07.05 – ...)
  • Auxiliary Bishop (2017.07.05 – ...): Josef Nuzík, Titular Bishop of Castra Galbæ (2017.07.05 – ...)

See also List of bishops and archbishops of Olomouc

Auxiliary bishops

• • Auxiliary Bishop: Josef Hrdlička (1990.03.17 – 2017.02.01)
  • Auxiliary Bishop: Archbishop Jan Graubner (later Archbishop) (1990.03.17 – 1992.09.28)
  • Auxiliary Bishop: Cardinal František Tomášek (1949.10.12 – 1977.12.30)
  • Auxiliary Bishop: Joseph Martin Nathan (1943.04.17 – 1947.01.30)
  • Auxiliary Bishop: Stanislav Zela (1940.10.11 – 1969.12.06)
  • Auxiliary Bishop: Giovanni Stavel (1927.04.29 – 1938.11.06)
  • Auxiliary Bishop: Josef Schinzel (1922.11.14 – 1944.07.28)
  • Auxiliary Bishop: Guglielmo Blazek (1906.12.06 – 1912.03.05)
  • Auxiliary Bishop: Carlo Wisnar (1904.11.14 – 1926.04.18)
  • Auxiliary Bishop: Jan Nepomuk Weinlich (1904.11.14 – 1905.12.24)
  • Auxiliary Bishop: Gustavo de Belrupt-Tyssac (1880.12.13 – 1895.06.09)
  • Auxiliary Bishop: Rodolpho von Thysebaert (1842.05.23 – 1868.05.12)
  • Auxiliary Bishop: Archbishop Alois Josef Schrenk (1838.02.12 – 1838.09.17)
  • Auxiliary Bishop: Bishop-elect Franz Anton Gindl (1831.09.30 – 1831.11.16)
  • Auxiliary Bishop: Ferdinand Maria von Chotek (later Archbishop) (1817.04.14 – 1831.09.30)
  • Auxiliary Bishop: Alois Jozef Krakowski von Kolowrat (later Archbishop) (1800.12.22 – 1815.03.15)
  • Auxiliary Bishop: Karl Godefried Ritter von Rosenthal (1779.03.01 – 1800.05.25)
  • Auxiliary Bishop: Joannes Wenceslaus von Freyenfels (1771.12.16 – 1776.10.17)
  • Auxiliary Bishop: Matthias Franz Reichsgraf von Chorinsky (1769.09.11 – 1777.12.15)
  • Auxiliary Bishop: Johann Karl Leopold Graf von Scherffenberg (1749.04.21 – 1771.04.17)
  • Auxiliary Bishop: Otto Honorius Reichsgraf von Egkh und Hungersbach (1729.08.03 – 1748.04.30)
  • Auxiliary Bishop: Franz Julian Graf von Braida (1703.06.04 – 1727)

See also

• List of Catholic dioceses in the Czech Republic
• List of bishops and archbishops of Olomouc
• František Merta - priest convicted in child sexual abuse case allegedly involving Archbishop of Olomouc Jan Graubner

Sources and external links

• GCatholic.org, with Google map - data for all sections
•  Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Olmütz". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 
• Olmomouc from catholic-hierarchy.org

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Coordinates: 49°30′N 17°30′E / 49.5°N 17.5°E / 49.5; 17.5