Archdiocese of Olomouc


The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Olomouc is a metropolitan archdiocese of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church in the Czech Republic. It has its seat in Olomouc.

Special churches

Its cathedral is Cathedral of St. Wenceslaus in Olomouc and it has three Marian minor basilicas:
As of 2015, it pastorally served 746,900 Catholics on 10,018 km2 in 418 parishes and 2 missions with 343 priests, 33 deacons, 326 lay religious and 19 seminarians.

Ecclesiastical province

Its suffragan sees are :
Established in 1063 as Diocese of Olomouc / Olomucen, on territory split off from the then Diocese of Prague and promoted on 5 December 1777 to Metropolitan Archdiocese of Olomouc / Olomucen .
In 1788 it gained territory from the Diocese of Wrocław, in 1863 exchanged territory with Moravian Diocese of Brno.
;Suffragan Bishops of Olomouc
;Metropolitan Archbishops of Olomouc
Patron saints of the Archdiocese of Olomouc include: Wenceslaus, Cyril and Methodius, Pięciu Braci Męczenników, Adalbert of Prague, Vitus, Procopius of Sázava, Święta Kordula, Ludmila and Pavlína Římská.