Military Chaplaincy

Opening Comments

By ThLic Tomáš HOLUB – First Chief Chaplain of the Armed Forces of the Czech Republic, retired Colonel, presently adviser to the Minister of Defence in Military Chaplaincy affairs.

Dear Friends,
Welcome to the page of the Chaplaincy of the Armed Forces of the Czech Republic. I am convinced that the chance to find web pages of the Military Chaplaincy among other links of the military server gives its own explicit evidence regarding relations of the armed forces with their military chaplains. They are no longer considered within the military as something exotic as they have become a normal part of the military life, paying benefits in peacetime within the Czech Republic, as well as during foreign deployments in Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iraq and Kosovo.

(Written by Tomáš Holub in July 2003)

Address:

VÚ 1304
Vítězné náměstí 5
CZ 160 01 Prague 6
Czech Republic

Chief Chaplain:
Lieutenant Colonel Jan Kozler
Phone: +420 973 216 033 Mobile: +420 606 620 067 E-mail: LTC Jan KOZLER	VÚ 1304 Vítězné náměstí 5 CZ 160 01 Prague 6

New Chief Chaplain of the Armed Forces of the Czech Republic

At the end of September 2006, the first Chief Chaplain of ACR Colonel Tomáš Holub, the Roman Catholic Church, who laid the foundations of the Military Chaplaincy in this country, and who had served in his position since 1998, handed over his post and the Scriptures to the hands of Lieutenant Colonel Jan KOZLER (* 1976), Czechoslovak Hussite Church, to go on in service for soldiers.

Pictures from the hand-over service at the Military Church of St. Jan Nepomucký in Prague: