Apostolic Administration of Český Těšín

The Apostolic Administration of Český Těšín was a short-lived (1947-78) pre-diocesan Latin Catholic jurisdiction in Czechoslovakia.

History
  • Established in 1947 as the Apostolic Administration of Český Těšín (named after the Moravian-Silesian Region see, alias Teschen), on canonical territory split off from the German and then Polish Archdiocese of Breslau, renamed as Archdiocese of Wrocław in 1972.
  • Suppressed on 31 May 1978, its territory being merged into the Czech Metropolitan Archdiocese of Olomouc (Olomütz, also Moravia).

Ordinaries

(both Roman Rite)

Apostolic Administrators of Český Těšín
  • Monsignor František Onderek (1947 – death 1962.10.24)
  • uncanonical: Father Antonín Veselý (born Austria) (1962 – retired 1977), died 1983.

See also


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