Pavel Huyn
Pavel Huyn | |
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| Archbishop of Prague | |
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| Church | Catholic Church |
| Archdiocese | Archdiocese of Prague |
| In office | 4 October 1916 – 6 September 1919 |
| Predecessor | Lev Skrbenský z Hříště |
| Successor | František Kordač |
| Other post | Patriarch of Alexandria (1921-1946) |
| Previous posts | Titular Archbishop of Serdica (1919-1921) Bishop of Brno (1904-1916) |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 7 June 1892 |
| Consecration | 26 June 1904 by Franziskus von Sales Bauer |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 17 February 1868 |
| Died | 1 October 1946 (aged 78) |
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Pavel hrabě Huyn (German: Paul Graf Huyn) (17 February 1868 in Brno – 1 October 1946 in Bolzano) was a Moravian-German Roman Catholic clergyman. He was bishop of Brno from 1904 to 1916 and archbishop of Prague from 1916 to 1919.[1]
Archbishop Huyn was of aristocratic birth in the Hapsburg Austro-Hungarian Empire, so he dreaded an independent Czechoslavakia.[2]
The new Czechoslovak government demanded that the majority of incumbent bishops be replaced and systematically implemented a persecutory anti-church policy. Due to this imposition, at least other nine bishops (including Cardinal Lev Skrbenský z Hříště, Archbishop of Olomouc and his predecessor in Prague) were replaced or forced out to resign. After 1921 only two pre-war bishops were allowed to remain.[3]
He became later Titular Archbishop of Serdica (1919–1921) and Latin Patriarch of Alexandria (1921–1946).[1]
He was also assistant to the papal throne.
He was brother of Count Karl Georg Huyn, the Governor of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria in 1917–1918.
References
- 1 2 "Former Titular Patriarchal See of Alexandria, Egypt: Bishops: Past Ordinaries: Titular Patriarchs of Alexandria (Roman Rite)". GCatholic. 30 March 2026. Retrieved April 30, 2026.
- ↑ Šmíd, Marek (2023). "ESTABLISHMENT OF DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS BETWEEN CZECHOSLOVAKIA AND THE HOLY SEE AFTER THE CREATION OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA IN THE FALL OF 1918" (PDF). Theologica. 13 (2): 99, 114. Retrieved April 30, 2026.
The posts of residential bishops in Czechoslovakia were mostly held by Church leaders of aristocratic origin, conservative mindset and pro-Habsburg orientation. Therefore, these dignitaries often regarded the fall of the pro-Catholic Habsburg monarchy as the loss of a firmly established confessional society and the end of state support for religion which they perceived as a tragedy and personal defeat. Prague Archbishop Pavel Huyn and Olomouc Archbishop Lev Skrbenský of Hříště embodied these concerns. It is thus understandable that they acted with considerable hostility towards Czechoslovakia.
- ↑ Luboslav Hromjak, Pietro Gasparri, il governo cecoslovacco e la Slovacchia in Laura Pettinaroli e Massimiliano Valente, Il cardinale Pietro Gasparri, segretario di Stato (1914-1930), Heidelberg University Publishing, 2020, pp. 185-206. The essay explicitly discusses the government's "persecutory policy against the Church" (politica ecclesiastica di carattere persecutorio, p. 189).
External links
- David M. Cheney. "Archbishop Pavel Huyn [Catholic-Hierarchy". Catholic-hierarchy.org. Retrieved 2017-03-29.