He provided aid to those in Slovakia and Subcarpathian Russia which then were part of Czechoslovakia, and who wanted to return to their ancestral Orthodox faith from the Unia. He also published the essential books for the conduct of church services that were translated in the Czech language. In Bohemia, he oversaw the building of eleven churches and two chapels. Gorazd laid the foundations of the Orthodox Church throughout Bohemia, Moravia, and into Slovakia. Gorazd.Īs the Orthodox leader in the new nation of Czechoslovakia, Bp. Gorazd (Pavlik) is considered to be in the succession from Archbishop Methodius of Moravia and bears the name of one of St. On September 25, 1921, Archimandrite Gorazd was consecrated Bishop of Moravia and Silesia at the Cathedral of the Holy Archangel Michael in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, by Patriarch Dimitri of Serbia. Matthias as a bishop of the Orthodox Church with the name Gorazd. The Church of Serbia thus consented to consecrate Fr. Among those seeking the Orthodox church was a Roman Catholic priest, Matthias Pavlik, who had been interested in Orthodox Christianity for years.
Many looked to the Serbian Orthodox Church as parts of the Serbian church had been within the pre-war union. The Orthodox order survived in present day Slovakia due to its nearness and influence to Kievan Russia until the union with Rome was instituted by the Viennese Court.Īfter the legal restraints to Orthodoxy were removed with the end of World War I, many people left the Roman Catholic Church. This mission was destroyed after Methodius died in 885, as Pope Stephen V of Rome forced all disciples of the brothers to leave the countryside which is now the Czech Republic. In doing this they developed the first Slavic alphabet. Cyril and Methodius began their mission to the Slavs, introducing the liturgical and canonical order of the Orthodox Church, translated into the Church Slavonic language. The present day church occupies the land of Moravia, where the brothers Ss. The Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia presents both an ancient history as well as a very modern history. Archbishop Simeon (Jakovljević) is currently the locum tenens until the election of a new primate is held.
The primate was His Beatitude, Metropolitan Christopher of Prague and the Czech Lands and Slovakia, who was elected on until his resignation on April 12, 2013. The Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia is a self-governing body of the Orthodox Christian church that territorially covers the countries of the Czech Republic and the Republic of Slovakia.
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