Franciszek Pištěk

Archbishop František de Paula Pištěk (; ; 6 April 1786 – 1 February 1846) was a Roman Catholic prelate, who served as a Titular Bishop of Azotus and Auxiliary Bishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Prague from 27 September 1824 until 24 February 1832, a Diocesan Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tarnów from 24 February 1832 until 1 February 1836 and as the Metropolitan Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lviv and Primate of Galicia and Lodomeria from 1 February 1836 until his death on 1 February 1846.

Life Archbishop Pištěk was born in the peasant Bohemian Roman Catholic family of Vojtěch and Anna in the present day Central Bohemian Region. After graduation of the gymnasium education, he subsequently joined Faculty of Theology of the Charles University and the Major Roman Catholic Theological Seminary in Prague

On September 27, 1824, he was appointed by the Pope Leo XII as a Titular Bishop of Azotus and Auxiliary Bishop of Prague. On November 14, 1824, he was consecrated as a bishop by Metropolitan Archbishop Václav Leopold Chlumčanský and other prelates of the Roman Catholic Church. He also was a theologian and a spiritual writer, one among the founders of the "Časopis katolického duchovenstva" (Magazine of a Catholic Clergy) in 1828. In 1831 he also was appointed as a Vicar general of his Archdiocese.

On February 24, 1832, he was confirmed by the Holy See as a Diocesan Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tarnów in a present-day Poland and 4 years later, on February 1, 1836, with the transfer of the previous Metropolitan to another see, he was confirmed by the Holy See as a Metropolitan Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lviv.

Archbishop Pištěk died, while in the office, on February 1, 1846, and was buried in the crypt of the Mary Gromnicza Church.