Pavel Huyn
Historical Roman Catholic Clergyman
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Pavel hrabě Huyn (German: Paul Graf Huyn) (17 February 1868 in Brno – 1 October 1946 in Bolzano) was a Moravian-German Roman Catholic clergyman. He was bishop of Brno from 1904 to 1916 and archbishop of Prague from 1916 to 1919.[1]
Pavel Huyn | |
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| Archbishop of Prague | |
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| Church | Catholic Church |
| Archdiocese | Archdiocese of Prague |
| In office | 4 October 1916 – 6 September 1919 |
| Predecessor | Lev Skrbenský z Hříště |
| Successor | František Kordač |
| Other post | Patriarch of Alexandria (1921-1946) |
| Previous posts | Titular Archbishop of Serdica (1919-1921) Bishop of Brno (1904-1916) |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 7 June 1892 |
| Consecration | 26 June 1904 by Franziskus von Sales Bauer |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 17 February 1868 |
| Died | 1 October 1946 (aged 78) |
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Archbishop Huyn was of aristocratic birth in the Hapsburg Austro-Hungarian Empire, so he dreaded an independent Czechoslavakia.[2]
The new Czechoslovak government demanded that the majority of incumbent bishops be replaced and systematically implemented a persecutory anti-church policy. Due to this imposition, at least other nine bishops (including Cardinal Lev Skrbenský z Hříště, Archbishop of Olomouc and his predecessor in Prague) were replaced or forced out to resign. After 1921 only two pre-war bishops were allowed to remain.[3]
He became later Titular Archbishop of Serdica (1919–1921) and Latin Patriarch of Alexandria (1921–1946).[1]
He was also assistant to the papal throne.
He was brother of Count Karl Georg Huyn, the Governor of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria in 1917–1918.
