Karel Farský Explained

Karel Farský
Birth Date:	26 July 1880
Birth Place:	Škodějov, Semily District, Bohemia
Death Place:	Prague, Czechoslovakia

Karel Farský (26 July 1880, in Škodějov, Semily District, Bohemia – 12 June 1927, in Prague) was a Czech Roman Catholic priest, and later founder and first patriarch (1920) of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church.^[1] He was Bishop of the West Bohemia (Prague) Diocese of the Czechoslovak Church from 1923 when he became the first patriarch of the church keeping both titles of patriarch and bishop until his death in 1927. He was succeeded by Gustav Adolf Procházka who took office in 1928.

References

• Nĕmec, Ludvík (1975) The Czechoslovak Heresy and Schism: the emergence of a national Czechoslovak church American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia,
• Tonzar, David (2002) Vznik a vývoj novodobé husitské teologie a Církev československá husitska Karolinum, Prague, in Czech
• Urban, Rudolf (1973) Die tschechoslowakische hussitische Kirche J.G. Herder-Institut, Marburg/Lahn,, in German

Notes and References

1. http://www.ccshrakovnik.org/noccsh.rak.historie02.html "Historie Církve československé v Rakovníku"