BUDĚJOVICE (BUDWEIS), DIOCESE OF. - City of Czechoslovakia, the most important in southern Bohemia, founded in the second half of the 13th century by the will of the king of Bohemia Přemysl Ottokar II. During the religious struggles originating from the preaching and action of John Hus, B. remained entirely Catholic, and within its walls a great many persecuted Catholic priests and religious found safe asylum. When King George of Poděbrady took up arms in defense of the movement that tended to detach Bohemia from the Church of Rome, B. formed an alliance with the Bohemian nobility against the Hussite king. On 27 Nov. 1785 it was erected into a diocese, suffragan of the archbishopric of Prague.

It comprises within its jurisdiction, out of 830,000 inhabitants, 730,000 faithful, distributed in 430 parishes, with 430 diocesan priests and 38 regulars (1948). Among its monuments worthy of mention are the Catholic Cathedral, with a characteristic tower of black stone; the church of St. Mark, built in the 13th century, the Cistercian abbey of Vyšší Brod (Hohenfurt) founded in 1259, and the Dominican convent.

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BIBL.: J. Branis, Soupis pamítek historických a uměleckých Praga 1900; K. Kopl, Urkundenbuch der Stadt Budweis in Böhmen, Praga 1901; J. Ostrowski, s. v. in DHG, X, coll. 1041-43.

Mariano Baffi

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