František Kovář
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František Kovář (2 September 1888, Sebranice - 12 June 1969, Prague) was the third patriarch of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church.
Hr was formerly a Czech Roman Catholic reformist priest, later a theologian, journalist, translator, editor, spiritual leader of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church.
František Kovář (Doctor of Theology, PhD) was Dean of Hus's Czechoslovak Evangelical Faculty of Theology (in Czech, Husovy československé evangelické fakulty bohoslovecké - HČEFB) at Charles University (in Czech Univerzita Karlova) in Prague.
After death of Patriarch Gustav Adolf Procházka in 1942, the position remained vacant until 1946 when František Kovář was elected third bishop-patriarch of the Czechoslovak (Hussite) Church ruling from 1946 to 1961 setting down when he was 73 and Miroslav Novák succeeded him as patriarch. Kovář died in 1969.
- 1888 births
- 1969 deaths
- People from Blansko District
- People from the Margraviate of Moravia
- Czech Roman Catholic priests
- Czechoslovak Hussite Church bishops
- 20th-century archbishops
- 20th-century Roman Catholic priests
- Former Roman Catholics