Antonín Cyril Stojan
Czechoslovak member of Czechoslovak national parliament, senator of Czechoslovak National Parliament and Czechoslovak politician (1851–1923)
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. From 1888 to 1909 he served as a pastor at Dražovice. Stojan founded an apostolate to work for the unification of the Slavic people and served as a member of the Austrian Parliament (or Imperial Council) from 1897 until he served as a senator for Czechoslovakia from 1920 until his death, being succeeded by Bohuslav Koukal. He also served as the canon of the Olomouc Cathedral from 1917 and the provost of the Saint Maurice Kromeriz institute for seminarians.
On 10 March 1921 he received an appointment from Pope Benedict XV as the newest Archbishop of Olomouc, succeeding Lev Skrbenský z Hříště, 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.
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