František Pištěk

Archbishop František de Paula Pištěk (Ukrainian: Франтішек де Паула Піштек; Polish: Franciszek de Paula Pisztek; 6 April 1786 – 1 February 1846) was a Roman Catholic prelate, who served as a Titular Bishop of Azotus and Auxiliary Bishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Prague from 27 September 1824 until 24 February 1832, a Diocesan Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tarnów from 24 February 1832 until 1 February 1836 and as the Metropolitan Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lviv and Primate of Galicia and Lodomeria from 1 February 1836 until his death on 1 February 1846.

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František de Paula Pištěk
Metropolitan Archbishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lviv, Primate of Galicia and Lodomeria
Church	Roman Catholic Church
Appointed	1 February 1836
Term ended	1 February 1846
Predecessor	Franz Xaver Luschin
Successor	Václav Vilém Václavíček
Other posts	Titular Bishop of Azotus and Auxiliary Bishop of Prague (1824–1832) Diocesan Bishop of Tarnów (1832–1836)
Orders
Ordination	21 August 1808 (Priest)
Consecration	14 November 1824 (Bishop) by Václav Leopold Chlumčanský
Personal details
Birth name	František de Paula Pištěk
Born	(1786-04-06)6 April 1786 Prčice, Kingdom of Bohemia, Habsburg Monarchy (present day in Central Bohemian Region, Czech Republic)
Died	1 February 1846(1846-02-01) (aged 59) Lviv, Austrian Empire (present day in Ukraine)

Life

Archbishop Pištěk was born in the peasant Bohemian Roman Catholic family of Vojtěch and Anna in the present day Central Bohemian Region. After graduation of the gymnasium education, he subsequently joined Faculty of Theology of the Charles University and the Major Roman Catholic Theological Seminary in Prague[1] and was ordained as priest on August 21, 1808, for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Prague[2] after completed his a philosophical and theological studies.[3]

After his ordination, he served as an assistant priest, and later as a parish priest in the different parishes. In 1817 he was appointed as a dean in Přeštice and 6 years later, in 1823, became a canon of the Metropolitan Chapter of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Prague in the St. Vitus Cathedral.[3]

On September 27, 1824, he was appointed by the Pope Leo XII as a Titular Bishop of Azotus and Auxiliary Bishop of Prague. On November 14, 1824, he was consecrated as a bishop by Metropolitan Archbishop Václav Leopold Chlumčanský and other prelates of the Roman Catholic Church.[2] He also was a theologian and a spiritual writer, one among the founders of the "Časopis katolického duchovenstva" (Magazine of a Catholic Clergy) in 1828. In 1831 he also was appointed as a Vicar general of his Archdiocese.[1]

On February 24, 1832, he was confirmed by the Holy See as a Diocesan Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tarnów in a present-day Poland and 4 years later, on February 1, 1836, with the transfer of the previous Metropolitan to another see, he was confirmed by the Holy See as a Metropolitan Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lviv.[3]

Archbishop Pištěk died, while in the office, on February 1, 1846, and was buried in the crypt of the Mary Gromnicza Church.[3]

References

1. Beben, Milan M. (2014). Encyklopedie českých a moravských pomocných (světících) biskupů (se supplementem sídelních biskupů). Praha: Libri. pp. 125–126.
2. "Archbishop Franciszek de Paula Pišték (Pisztek) †". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 14 May 2018.
3. "Архієпископ Франциск де Паула Піштек". rkc.in.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 14 May 2018.

Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Antônio Rodrigues de Aguiar	Titular Bishop of Azotus 1824–1832	Succeeded by Rafael Barišić
Preceded by Ferdinand Maria von Chotek	Bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Tarnów 1832–1836	Succeeded by Franciszek Ksawery Zachariasiewicz
Preceded by Franz Xaver Luschin	Metropolitan Archbishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lviv 1836–1846	Succeeded by Václav Vilém Václavíček (not takes effect)
	Primate of Galicia and Lodomeria 1836–1846