Dear visitors of these web pages!
I would like to shortly introduce our parish to
you.St. Bartholomew's cathedral parish is the largest parish of the Plzeň bishopric and has many specific
aspects. One of them is the fact that the parish territory includes
the Plzeň bishop's residence.
Therefore in 1993, the parish Church
of St. Bartholomew became the seat - cathedral - of the Plzeň bishop. There are
other churches in our parish territory, where we celebrate divine
services on regular basis: besides the aforementioned St.
Bartholomew's Cathedral it is the Church
of Assumption of Virgin Mary at the former Franciscan church. Effective as of September 1, 2007, a
new parish Plzeň - Bory was established and the Church of St. John
of Nepomuk became the parish church of this new parish. The parish
was established by a decree of the bishop, mons. František
Radkovský, dated by August 24, 2007. The first vicar was
appointed P. Miroslav Martiš CM. I
would like to mention the Church
of St. Nicholas, taken over under the
administration by the Greek Catholic church, celebrating every Sunday
divine services in ancient ceremony of Byzantian rite. Clerical
administration is provided by two priests and one Basillian. The
parish also includes the Meditation
Garden in Doudlevce with the Chapel
of St. Maxmilian Kolbe. On December 31,
2004, our parish was joined with parishes of Chotíkov (with
the Church of Elevation of the Holy Cross built in 1834) and Malesice
(Church of St. George) built in 1597).
Each week, we release Bartík
bulletin, where people are regularly
informed mainly on divine services in the parish and each week they
read my Festive Word column.
When the Plzeň bishopric was founded, the ancient
Archdeacon's House at the Square of the Republic no. 35 became the
bishop's residence and the parish office - archdeaconry - moved to the gradually reconstructed Franciscan
monastery at the Church of Assumption of Virgin Mary in Františkánská
street. Here, there are located offices
of the parish (where you can find us), a grand hall for ceremonial
gatherings, catechism sessions and rehearsals of Plzeň Schola.
Also P. Ludolf Josef
Kazda O.Praem is
active in the parish - he is the episcopal vicar for the deaconry.
Following from this concise
summary you may see that our parish has lives quite actively in terms
of spirituality. I appreciate the work of all my colleagues who
pursue spiritual blossom of the parish at the St. Bartholomew's
Cathedral.
P.
Emil Soukup