František Tomášek

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Styles of František Cardinal Tomášek


Reference style	His Eminence
Spoken style	Your Eminence
Informal style	Cardinal
See	Prague

František Cardinal Tomášek (June 30, 1899, Studénka, Moravia - August 4, 1992, Prague, Czechoslovakia) was a significant dignitary of the Roman Catholic Church in Bohemia, was the 34th Archbishop of Prague, a Roman Catholic theologian.

Cardinal František Tomášek - memorial plaque in Moravská Huzová.

July 5, 1922 – ordained priest
1940–1945 teacher at the diocesan theological training institution in Olomouc
October 14, 1949 – secretly consecrated bishop
July 23, 1951 – May 28, 1954 – interned by the Communists in the camp of Želiv
1954–1965 – priest in Moravská Huzová
1962–1965 – took part in the Second Vatican Council
1965 – appointed administrator of the archdiocese of Prague
1977 – refused to sign Charter 77
June 27, 1977 published as cardinal (had been appointed in pectore in 1976)
December 30, 1977 appointed the 34th archbishop of Prague
1978 – took part in the conclaves which elected John Paul I and John Paul II, in the Vatican
1989 – supported Czechoslovak students and actors in their struggle for democracy (see Velvet Revolution)