Roman Catholic Diocese of Hradec Králové
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Hradec Králové Latin: Reginae Gradecen(sis), German: Königgrätz } is a diocese located in the city of Hradec Králové in the Ecclesiastical province of Prague in the Czech Republic.
Diocese of Hradec Králové Dioecesis Riginae Gradecensis Diecéze královéhradecká | |
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Location | |
Country | Czech Republic |
Metropolitan | Prague |
Statistics | |
Area | 11,650 km2 (4,500 sq mi) |
Population - Total - Catholics (including non-members) | (as of 2016) 1,272,000 454,200 (35.7%) |
Information | |
Rite | Latin Rite |
Cathedral | Cathedral of the Holy Spirit Katedrála Svatého Ducha |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Bishop | Jan Vokál |
Auxiliary Bishops | Josef Kajnek |
Map | |
History
- November 10, 1664: Established as Diocese of Hradec Králové from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Praha
- On 28 June 1972 Pope Paul VI – by his Apostolic constitution Episcoporum Poloniae coetus – redrew boundaries of a number of Polish – and their adjacent Czech and German – dioceses, disentangling the County of Kladsko area from the Diocese of Hradec Králové and assigning it to the neighbouring Archdiocese of Wrocław.[1]
Leadership
- Bishops of Hradec Králové (Roman rite)
- Bishop Matthäus Ferdinand Sobek von Bilenberg, O.S.B. (10 November 1664 – 11 March 1669), appointed Archbishop of Prague
- Bishop Johann Friedrich Reichsgraf von Waldstein (16 June 1668 – 2 December 1675), appointed Archbishop of Prague
- Bishop Johann Franz Christoph Freiherr von Talmberg (15 January 1676 – 3 April 1698)
- Bishop Gottfried Freiherr Kapaun von Swoykow (23 September 1698 – 18 September 1701)
- Bishop Tobias Johannes Becker (24 November 1701 – 11 September 1710)
- Bishop Johann Adam Reichsgraf von Wratislaw von Mitrowitz (12 November 1710 – 24 September 1721), appointed Bishop of Litomerice
- Bishop Wenzel Franz Karl Reichsfreiherr Koschinsky von Koschín (9 January 1721 – 26 March 1731)
- Bishop Moritz Adolf Karl Herzog von Sachsen-Zeitz (8 October 1731 – 1 October 1733), appointed Bishop of Litomerice
- Bishop Johann Joseph von Wratislaw von Mitrowitz (6 July 1733 – 11 September 1753)
- Archbishop (personal title) Anton Peter Graf Przichowsky von Przichowitz (29 September 1753 – 26 October 1763), succeeded as Archbishop of Prague
- Bishop Hermann Hannibal Reichsgraf von Blümegen (5 November 1763 – 17 October 1774)
- Bishop Johann Andreas Kayser von Kaysern (14 May 1775 – 5 May 1776)
- Bishop Joseph Adam von Arco (15 July 1776 – 1 January 1780), appointed Bishop of Seckau, Austria; future Archbishop
- Bishop Johann Leopold Ritter von Hay (29 July 1780 – 1 June 1794)
- Bishop Maria-Thaddeus von Trauttmansdorf-Wiesnberg (1 July 1795 – 26 November 1811), appointed Archbishop of Olomouc (Cardinal in 1816)
- Bishop Alois Jozef Krakowski von Kolowrat (15 March 1815 – 28 February 1831), appointed Archbishop of Prague
- Bishop Karel Boromejský Hanl z Kirchtreu (24 February 1832 – 1874)
- Bishop Josef Jan Hais (5 July 1875 – 27 October 1892)
- Bishop Eduard Jan Brynyck (19 January 1893 – 20 November 1902)
- Bishop Josef Doubrava (22 June 1903 – 22 February 1921)
- Bishop Karel Kašpar (13 June 1921 – 22 October 1931), appointed Archbishop of Prague (Cardinal in 1935)
- Bishop Maurizio Picha (22 October 1931 – 12 November 1956)
- Bishop Karel Otcenášek (Apostolic Administrator 30 March 1950 – 21 December 1989); see below
- Bishop Karel Otcenášek (21 December 1989 – 6 June 1998); see above; became an Archbishop later in 1998
- Bishop Dominik Duka, O.P. (6 June 1998 – 13 February 2010), appointed Archbishop of Prague (Cardinal in 2012)
- Bishop Jan Vokál (3 March 2011 – )
See also
- Roman Catholicism in the Czech Republic
Notes
- Paulus VI: Const. Apost. Episcoporum Poloniae coetus, AAS 64 (1972), n. 10, pp. 657seq.
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