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.
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Special churches

Its cathedral is Cathedral of St. Wenceslaus in Olomouc and it has three Marian minor basilicas:

Statistics

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 :

History

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.

Episcopal ordinaries

;Suffragan Bishops of Olomouc
;Metropolitan Archbishops of Olomouc

Auxiliary bishops

  • * Josef Nuzík
  • * Antonín Basler
  • * Josef Hrdlička
  • * Archbishop Jan Graubner
  • * Cardinal František Tomášek
  • * Joseph Martin Nathan
  • * Stanislav Zela
  • * Giovanni Stavel
  • * Josef Schinzel
  • * Guglielmo Blazek
  • * Carlo Wisnar
  • * Jan Nepomuk Weinlich
  • * Gustavo de Belrupt-Tyssac
  • * Rodolpho von Thysebaert
  • * Archbishop Alois Josef Schrenk
  • * Bishop-elect Franz Anton Gindl
  • * Ferdinand Maria von Chotek
  • * Alois Jozef Krakowski von Kolowrat
  • * Karl Godefried Ritter von Rosenthal
  • * Joannes Wenceslaus von Freyenfels
  • * Matthias Franz Reichsgraf von Chorinsky
  • * Johann Karl Leopold Graf von Scherffenberg
  • * Otto Honorius Reichsgraf von Egkh und Hungersbach
  • * Franz Julian Graf von Braida

Patron saints

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.