Diocese of Ostrava-Opava
The Diocese of Ostrava-Opava is a suffragan Latin diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the Archdiocese of Olomouc in Moravskoslezský kraj, Moravia, in the Czech Republic.
The cathedral episcopal see is Katedrála Božského Spasitele, dedicated to the Divine Saviour, in Ostrava, and it also has
- a Co-Cathedral, the Co-Cathedral of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Opava
- a Minor Basilica: Basilica of the Visitation of Our Lady in Frýdek-Místek
History
- Established on May 30, 1996 as Diocese of Ostrava–Opava / Ostravien–Opavien, on territory split off from its Metropolitan, the Archdiocese of Olomouc, which territory was part until 1978 of the then Diocese of Wrocław while that comprised all Silesia.
Statistics
As per 2014, it pastorally served 429,300 Catholics on 6,150 km² in 276 parishes and a mission with 247 priests, 30 deacons, 218 lay religious and 8 seminarians.Episcopate
;Suffragan Bishops of Ostrava-Opava- František Václav Lobkowicz, Norbertines, a Prince of the Lobkowicz family, Vice-President of Czech Bishops' Conference ; previously Titular Bishop of Catabum Castra as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Praha
- Martin David ; previously auxiliary bishop, Titular Bishop of Thucca in Numidia.