Czechoslovak Hussite Church has new patriarch

Tomas Butta has been elected as the new patriarch of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church. Mr. Butta won the requisite number of votes in the first round, with 375 of 557 in his favour. The new patriarch will be sworn in at a ceremony on September 28 in Prague's St. Michael's Church on the Old Town Square. Tomas Butta was born in 1958 in Prague and became a priest of the Hussite Church in 1984. The Czechoslovak Hussite Church is the third largest religious institution in the Czech Republic, with about 100 000 members.