Greek Orthodox Church´s Persecution in Czechoslovak State after Events in February 1948

Abstract

The author analyses and describes the archive file, that is under the title „František Novák a spol“ deposited in Security Services Archive. This is a documentation of the criminal justice process, that was held with the three priests of the Redemptorist monastery in Libkovice in years 1948-1952.

They were to stand trial on a charge of abetment to the emigration of the Ukrainian Greek Orthodox´s believers and priests.

Keywords

• Redemptorist
• Greek Orthodox Church
• persecution of the churches
• church history