František Kovář, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

František Kovář

Czech priest, religion writer, professor, translator, religionist, theologist and university educator

Date of Birth: 02-Sep-1888

Place of Birth: Sebranice, South Moravian Region, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 12-Jun-1969

Profession: translator, pedagogue

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

František Kovár (2 September 1888, Sebranice - 12 June 1969, Prague) was the third patriarch of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church. Hr was formerly a Czech Roman Catholic reformist priest, later a theologian, journalist, translator, editor, spiritual leader of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church. František Kovár (Doctor of Theology, PhD) was Dean of Hus's Czechoslovak Evangelical Faculty of Theology (in Czech, Husovy ceskoslovenské evangelické fakulty bohoslovecké - HCEFB) at Charles University (in Czech Univerzita Karlova) in Prague. After death of Patriarch Gustav Adolf Procházka in 1942, the position remained vacant until 1946 when František Kovár was elected third bishop-patriarch of the Czechoslovak (Hussite) Church ruling from 1946 to 1961 setting down when he was 73 and Miroslav Novák succeeded him as patriarch.
Kovár died in 1969.