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Jan Tichy

ST. LADISLAUS (SLOVAK) From:

The first Slovak Church in the Cleveland Diocese was St. Ladislas, established in 1885.

Its people had been attending St. Joseph's German Church, to which the Rev. Stephen Furdek, pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes Parish, went weekly to preach a Slovak sermon. Furdek assisted in organizing the new parish and in 1899 purchased two lots on old Corwin Avenue (E. 92nd), building there a little frame church in which a one-room school was opened. The Rev. John Martvon was first pastor. At first, an increasing Hungarian population aided in attendance and support, but this group left in 1891 to build St. Elizabeth's parish. When Martvon returned to Europe in 1892, Rev. V. Panuska became pastor and he was succeeded by Rev. J. Jiranek. In 1901, Rev. J. Tichy took over the pastoral duties.

From: "People of Faith" by Charles R. Kaczynski The first Slovak Church in Cleveland was a Catholic one – St. Ladislaus Church. It was founded in 1885 at Corwin (now E. 92nd Street) and Holton Avenues in the Buckeye area.

c. 1901 – St. Ladislaus, Rev. J. Tichy

The Polish National Catholic Church (PNCC) was accepted into the Union of Utrecht (UU) in 1907.

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settled in March 1900 Hodur of Scranton in Pennsylvania Choose from ten Polish communities as bishop and was looking at the Old Catholic bishops in Europe by the episcopal consecration on. But the negotiations led to no decision.

A request by the Czechs to consecrate a Czech auxiliary bishop was rejected by the Old Catholic Bishops' Conference in September 1904 in Olten.

Tichy tried to unite the rom-free Slaven in America and establish an Old Catholic Diocese in Cleveland, Ohio.

Herzog wrote If this the Poles to them community must refuse they are particularly organize hostilities or even excommunications should be avoided.

America is big enough to encompass three or four Old Catholic dioceses.

The "National Catholic Church in North America" (NCCNA) was incorporated in Ohio June 14 1912. Arnold Mathew consecrated de Landas Berghes on June 29 1912 and sent him to the United States in 1914 to reunite scattered Old Roman Catholic churches; the National Catholic Church of America received de Landas Berghes and elected him archbishop. On October 4, 1916, Berghes consecrated Carmel Henry Carfora as his coadjutor and regionary bishop;

"North American Old Roman Catholic Diocese" was incorporated in the State of Illinois on 1917-10-17 and located in Norwood Park.

"The name of the church was changed to avoid confusion and from the desire to have no connection with other churches claiming to represent the Old Catholic movement in the United States." Carfora was elected archbishop in 1919 and in 1922 was made primate of all Old Roman Catholic churches.

Tichy's name appeared only in one edition of Yearbook of the Churches, the 1924-1925 edition, as "Monsignor Tichy" and he was not identified in the edition as a bishop.

Theodore Andrews, in The Polish National Catholic Church in America and Poland, stated that Kozlowski did not consecrate any bishops in the US.

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"bishop of the National Catholic Diocese of North America"

About a month later, the Church of St. John Neminick on Woodhill "Our congregation will very probably disperse," said Tichy, although he planned to hold monthly "chapel services" and continue to visit other small churches.