Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Olomouc

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Archdiocese of Olomouc

Dioecesis Olomucensis

Arcidiecéze Olomouc
Olomoucka arcidiecéza.svg
Location
CountryCzech Republic
Statistics
Area10,018 km2 (3,868 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics (including non-members)		(as of 2016)
Increase1,410,000
Increase746,900 (Steady53%)
Information
RiteLatin Rite
CathedralKatedrála sv. Václava
(Cathedral of St. Wenceslaus)
Patron saintSt Wenceslaus
Current leadership
PopeFrancis
Metropolitan ArchbishopJan Graubner
Auxiliary BishopsJosef Hrdlicka
Map
Rep Ceca - Arcidiocesi di Olomouc.png
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, , 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 :

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 5 December 1777 to 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 was visited 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 (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 (1711.09.15 – 1738.07.22)
  • Jakob Ernst Graf von Liechtenstein-Kastelkorn (1738.10.11 – 1745.03.04)
  • Cardinal (1745.12.09 – 1758.02.05)
  • (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)
  • (1832.02.24 – 1836.09.05)
  • Cardinal (1836.11.21 – 1853.03.31)
  • Cardinal Friedrich Egon von Fürstenberg (1853.06.27 – 1892.08.20)
  • (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)
  • (1923.11.10 – 1947.03.02)
  • (1948.03.23 – 1961.11.03)
    • Apostolic Administrator Josef Vrana (1973.02.19 – 1987.11.30)
    • Apostolic Administrator (1989.07.26 – 1989.12.21)
  • (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 Nuzík (2017.07.05 – )
    • Auxiliary Bishop: Antonín Basler (2017.07.05 – )
    • 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[]

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

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

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