Antonin Cyril Stojan

Antonín Cyril Stojan (22 May 1851 – 29 September 1923) was a Czech Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Archbishop of Olomouc from 1921 until his death. He was a politician prior to this and served in several political capacities while also serving as a pastor in several parishes where he strengthened social and charitable activities.

He was titled as Venerable on 14 June 2016 after Pope Francis confirmed his heroic virtue on the path to sainthood.

Life Antonín Stojan was born in 1851 in Beňov as the fifth of eight children to parents František and Josefa.

Stojan studied in both Kroměříž and Olomouc in preparation for the priesthood and received his ordination in 1876 from Cardinal Friedrich Egon von Fürstenberg; he served as a chaplain after his ordination in Příbor and was there for about a decade. He also served as the canon of the Olomouc Cathedral from 1917 and the provost of the Saint Maurice Kromeriz institute for seminarians. and he received his episcopal consecration on the next 3 April from the then-Archbishop (future cardinal) Clemente Micara. He was installed in his new episcopal see and set to work organizing a range of charitable and social associations for the archdiocese while forming a charitable archdiocesan initiative in 1922. He also oversaw the restoration and the enhancement of places of pilgrimage such as the Velehrad Jesuit church. Stojan ordained as a priest the future Cardinal František Tomášek in 1922 and conferred episcopal consecration upon Bishop Josef Schinzel in 1923.

Stojan died in Olomouc on 29 September 1923 after he suffered from a brain aneurism on 11 May 1923.