About Josef Špak
Lived 1929 – 2016 (aged 87). Josef Špak was a Czech presbyter, patriarch, parson and theologian.
Josef Špak (10 July 1929 – 12 September 2016) was a Czech clergyman, and from 1994 to 2001, the sixth bishop-patriarch of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church.
He was born in Litomyšl and baptised into the Catholic Church; he later studied theology at the Hus Czechoslovak Evangelical Theological Faculty. While studying there, he met his future wife Tonička, and they married in 1953.
After Tonička’s death in 1989, he married Hussite pastor Jana Švábenská.
He was elected on 27 August 1994 as patriarch, a position he kept until 2001 to be succeeded by Jan Schwarz.
He is buried at the Church of St. Vitus. Nicholas on the Old Town Square in Prague.
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Who was Josef Špak?
Czechoslovak Czechoslovak hussites bishop, priest of Czechoslovak hussites, Czechoslovak hussites patriarch and priest (1929–2016)
When was Josef Špak born?
Josef Špak was born on 10 July 1929 in Litomyšl.
When did Josef Špak die?
Josef Špak died on 12 September 2016 in Prague.
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Josef Špak was a presbyter, patriarch, parson and theologian.
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Josef Špak was Czech.
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