1. Miloslav Vlk was the President of the Council of European Bishops' Conferences.
16 Facts About Miloslav Vlk
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Miloslav Vlk was born in Lisnice, a municipal part of the market town of Sepekov, in the Pisek District of Southern Bohemia.
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Miloslav Vlk spent his childhood in Zaluzi near Chysky, where he attended elementary school and experienced the hard labour of farm work.
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Miloslav Vlk worked in various archives in Southern Bohemia: at the Regional Archives of Trebon in Jindrichuv Hradec, and from December 1960 to 1964 at the Civic and District Archives of Ceske Budejovice, where he served as director.
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Citizen Miloslav Vlk was thus forced to live underground in Prague from October 1978 to 31 December 1988.
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Miloslav Vlk became parish priest at Zihobce and Bukovnik in the Klatovy region of Western Bohemia.
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Miloslav Vlk was made a Cardinal by Pope John Paul II in the Consistory of 26 November 1994, becoming the Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme.
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From 16 April 1993 until 31 May 2001 Archbishop Miloslav Vlk was President of the Council of European Episcopal Conferences, as the successor to Carlo Maria Martini, Archbishop of Milan, Italy.
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Cardinal Miloslav Vlk died, after a long illness on 18 March 2017.
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Miloslav Vlk was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 2005 papal conclave that selected Pope Benedict XVI.
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Miloslav Vlk reached age 80 on 17 May 2012 and lost the right to participate in any papal conclave and on the same day he ceased to hold his various Curial memberships.
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Miloslav Vlk was a member of the following dicasteries of the Roman Curia:.
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Miloslav Vlk served for 18 years as Moderator of the Bishop-Friends of the Focolare Movement.
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Miloslav Vlk has fought a decade-long battle to work out a new legal framework for the Catholic Church in the Czech Republic, which would include resolution of some $6 billion in church property confiscated under the Communists and never returned.
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Miloslav Vlk has been sharply critical of the rise of far-right and xenophobic sentiment in Central Europe, joining Jewish protests in 2007 when right-wingers planned a march through Prague's Jewish quarter on the anniversary of Kristallnacht.
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In 2006, Miloslav Vlk criticized a group of Lefebvrite traditionalists who held a conference in Prague, accusing them of sympathies for "anti-Semitism and neo-Nazism".