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Czechoslovak Hussite Church
Church in Olomouc-?ernovír (Czech Republic). The forerunner of the C?SH was the Jednota (Union of the Catholic Czechoslovak Clergy), which was founded in 1890 to promote modernist reforms in the Roman Catholic Church, such as use of the vernacular in the liturgy and the adoption of voluntary rather than compulsory clerical celibacy. The radical movement that resulted in the foundation of a new Church began in the Christmas season of 1919, when Christmas masses were celebrated in the Czech language in many Czechoslovak churches. The CCH was officially established on January 8, 1920 by Dr. Karel Farský, who became its first Patriarch and author of its liturgy. It was known until 1971 as the Czechoslovak Church. The head of the Church continues to bear the title of Patriarch. The Church is a member of the World Council of Churches, the Ecumenical Council of Churches in the Czech Republic, the Conference of European Churches, and the Leuenberg Community of Churches. Membership is estimated at between 100,000 and 180,000 adherents, mostly in the Czech Republic and some in Slovakia. There are 307 congregations divided into five dioceses situated in Prague, Pilsen, Hradec Králové, Brno, and Olomouc. There are approximately 266 priests in active ministry, of whom 130 are women. Candidates of ministry are prepared at the Hussite Faculty of Theology at Charles University in Prague.
Demography of the Czechoslovak Hussite ChurchAfter an initial split from the Catholic Church, amidst the post-war atmosphere of anti-Catholic agitation and euphoria about the Czech independence, the Czechoslovak Church saw rapid increase of its membership. In the first Czechoslovak post-war census of 1921 523,232 people claimed to be adherents of this church in what is today the Czech republic. In 1930 the membership further grew to 779,672.http://snem.cirkev.cz/download/Srb.htm With 7.3 pct. of total population it became the prevailing religion in several regions of Bohemia and to a lesser degree in Moravia. At the beginning of the Communist rule the 1950 census recorded 946,497 adherents of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church. In the following decades there was no official census of religious affiliation in what is today the Czech republic. In the 1991 census there were 178,036 members of this church in the Czech republic. The 2001 census recorded 99,103 members.http://www.czso.cz/csu/2003edicniplan.nsf/p/4110-03 Relations with the CatholicsRelations between the Church and its fellow members of the ecumenical movement are cordial, but remained strained with the country's Roman Catholic leadership. The first female bishop of the Czechoslovak-Hussite church was elected to a 7-year term of office in April 1999. In January 1999, Catholic Archbishop Miloslav Vlk initially made a public statement of disapproval, warning against election of a woman to this position and saying that it would cause deterioration of ecumenical relations.[1] Following criticism by the Czech-Hussite Church for interfering in their affairs, the Roman Catholic Church distanced themselves from his remarks and stated that they would exert no pressure against her election.[2] In 2000, Catholic representatives attended the consecration of Jana Silerova as the Hussite Church?s first woman bishop.[3] Patriarchs
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