Apostolic Administration of Český Těšín

The Apostolic Administration of Český Těšín was a short-lived (1947–1978) 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 (Olmütz, also Moravia).

Ordinaries
(both Roman Rite)


 * Apostolic Administrators of Český Těšín
 * František Onderek (1947 – 24 October 1962)
 * Uncanonical: Antonín Veselý (1962–1977)

Sources and external links

 * GCatholic - data for all sections