PT Journal
AU Huska, J
TI New Sacral Buildings of Svitavy and Opatovice Deanery from the Late Eighteenth Century
SO Historica Olomucensia
PY 2014
BP 151
EP 162
VL 0
IS 89
DE Moravia; religion; churches; Joseph's reforms; parish network; 18th century; sacral buildings
AB This paper deals with building new churches in Opatovice and Svitavy deanery in accordance with Joseph's ecclesiastical policy in 1780s. Establishing new parishes and local chaplaincies represented an impulse to build new churches and rebuild older buildings. The widest building activities primarily took place in the newly established Opatovice deanery. A numerous non-Catholic minority, which achieved the legalization after issuing the Patent of Toleration, lived here. After that, the congregation of the reformed church (the Helvetic Confession) was founded in Vanovice. The local Catholic majority was afraid of the growth of the non-Catholicism in the area so that regional and ecclesiastical offices attempted to improve the parish network and supported building new churches.
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