Vliv skryté církve na Apoštolský exarchát v České republice
The Influence of the Underground Church on the Apostolic Exarchate in the Czech Republic

Summary/Abstract: As early as in the mid-1960s, i.e. from the beginning of the existence of underground church structures, Felix M. Davídek, the founder of the Koinótés community and later an underground bishop, and his colleagues emphasized the importance of the Greek Catholic Church. This project is known as O.V.E.S. (Opus Vocationum Ecclesiae Silentii) and Rome learned about it from Gerhard Schaffran, Bishop of Meissen. The primary stimulus for its establishment was the persecution of the Greek Catholic Church in the former Czechoslovakia and its subsequent liquidation on 28 April 1950 at the Prešov Synod (“sobor”). According to the underground Bishop Stanislav Krátký, the main reason for establishing the Greek Catholic branch was contact with the East and the celebration of the Eucharist.

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