HRADEC KRÁLOVÉ (KÖNIGGRÄTZ). - Diocese and city in Czechoslovakia, suffragan of Prague.

The diocese has an area of 13,090 sq. km., with a population of 1,294,702 inhabitants, of whom 913,606 are Catholics. It has 477 parishes, with 612 diocesan priests and 50 regulars, 1 seminary, 10 male religious communities and 71 female (1949).

The diocese was created by Pope Alexander VII on 10 Nov. 1664; the first bishop was the Benedictine Matteo Ferdinando Sobek von Bilenberg, in 1668 promoted to Archbishop of Prague. Bishop Taddeo von Trautmannsdorf (1795-1811) was later Archbishop of Olmütz and cardinal; Bishop K. Kaspar (1920-31), later Archbishop of Prague, was also a cardinal.

The most notable sacred building in the whole diocese is the Gothic Cathedral of the 14th century, restored in 1864; then the likewise Gothic church of St. Barbara at Kuttenberg. In the diocese, the Benedictine abbey of St. Wenceslas at Braunau is remembered; occupied by the Hussites, it was restored in 1674 (Cottineau, I, p. 479).

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BIBL.: J. Linz, Königgrätz, in Cath. Enc., VIII, p. 688; anon., s. v. ibid., Supplement, pp. 382-83; E. Winter, s. v. in LThK, VI, coll. 130-31.

Enrico Josi

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