Pavel Huyn

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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]

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]

Life and ministry

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.

References

  1. 1.[1.2]"Former Titular Patriarchal See of Alexandria, Egypt: Bishops: Past Ordinaries: Titular Patriarchs of Alexandria (Roman Rite)". GCatholic. 30 March 2026. Retrieved April 30, 2026.
  2. 2.Šmíd, Marek (2023). "ESTABLISHMENT OF DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS BETWEEN CZECHOSLOVAKIA AND THE HOLY SEE AFTER THE CREATION OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA IN THE FALL OF 1918" (PDF). Theologica. 13 (2): 99, 114. Retrieved April 30, 2026. The posts of residential bishops in Czechoslovakia were mostly held by Church leaders of aristocratic origin, conservative mindset and pro-Habsburg orientation. Therefore, these dignitaries often regarded the fall of the pro-Catholic Habsburg monarchy as the loss of a firmly established confessional society and the end of state support for religion which they perceived as a tragedy and personal defeat. Prague Archbishop Pavel Huyn and Olomouc Archbishop Lev Skrbenský of Hříště embodied these concerns. It is thus understandable that they acted with considerable hostility towards Czechoslovakia.
  3. 3.Luboslav Hromjak, Pietro Gasparri, il governo cecoslovacco e la Slovacchia in Laura Pettinaroli e Massimiliano Valente, Il cardinale Pietro Gasparri, segretario di Stato (1914-1930), Heidelberg University Publishing, 2020, pp. 185-206. The essay explicitly discusses the government's "persecutory policy against the Church" (politica ecclesiastica di carattere persecutorio, p. 189).