František Pištěk

Archbishop Pištěk was born in the peasant Bohemian Roman Catholic family of Vojtěch and Anna in the present day Central Bohemian Region. After graduation of the gymnasium education, he subsequently joined Faculty of Theology of the Charles University and the Major Roman Catholic Theological Seminary in Prague[1] and was ordained as priest on August 21, 1808, for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Prague[2] after completed his a philosophical and theological studies.[3]

After his ordination, he served as an assistant priest, and later as a parish priest in the different parishes. In 1817 he was appointed as a dean in Přeštice and 6 years later, in 1823, became a canon of the Metropolitan Chapter of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Prague in the St. Vitus Cathedral.[3]

On September 27, 1824, he was appointed by the Pope Leo XII as a Titular Bishop of Azotus and Auxiliary Bishop of Prague. On November 14, 1824, he was consecrated as a bishop by Metropolitan Archbishop Václav Leopold Chlumčanský and other prelates of the Roman Catholic Church.[2] He also was a theologian and a spiritual writer, one among the founders of the "Časopis katolického duchovenstva" (Magazine of a Catholic Clergy) in 1828. In 1831 he also was appointed as a Vicar general of his Archdiocese.[1]

On February 24, 1832, he was confirmed by the Holy See as a Diocesan Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tarnów in a present-day Poland and 4 years later, on February 1, 1836, with the transfer of the previous Metropolitan to another see, he was confirmed by the Holy See as a Metropolitan Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lviv.[3]

Archbishop Pištěk died, while in the office, on February 1, 1846, and was buried in the crypt of the Mary Gromnicza Church.[3]