Josef Vrana

[2] After the death of the interned archbishop of Olomouc, Josef Karel Matocha In 1961, the Czechoslovakian authorities refused to accept a new bishop candidate (František Vaňák) proposed by the Holy See.

Finally, Josef Vrana, who was a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, was appointed an administrator on 19 February 1973.

Nevertheless, the Church had no confidence in him, and avoided mentioning him as a "bishop of Olomouc," as the state authorities have demanded.

In the episcopal conference of which he was a member, Vrana was supposed to push through the state's requirements and expectations.

Vrana was buried in the Fürstenbergkapelle of Saint Wenceslas Cathedral, where an epitaph records him.