Czech Cardinal Duka, foe of Communist rule, dead at 82
November 04, 2025
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CWN Editor's Note: Cardinal Dominik Duka, the retired Archbishop of Prague, died in a Prague hospital on November 3, at the age of 82.
Ordained as a Dominican priest in 1970, the future cardinal was barred from public ministry by the Communist government, but continued his priestly work in secret while employed in an industrial plant. He was imprisoned from 1981 to 1982, and again exercised his ministry secretly behind bars.
He was appointed Bishop of Hradec Kralove in 1998, then became Archbishop of Prague in 2010, serving in that post until his retirement in 2022 at the age of 79. He was raised to the College of Cardinals by Pope Benedict XVI in 2012.
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