Jan Konzal (born May 5, 1935 in Zbuzany-Třebonice) is a Czech-born secretly ordained married bishop of the underground Catholic Church who existed in Czechoslovakia during communism. He is an electrical engineer. In 1968 he married Magdalena Mazancova.
From his youth he was associated with the secret structures of the Catholic Church. In 1960 he was sentenced to three years in prison for his participation in secretly celebrated Masses.
In March 1972 the underground Bishop Bedřich Provazník ordained him as the deacon, and in May of that same year as the priest. Ten years later, on 29 May 1982, another underground bishop, Fridolín Zahradnik, ordained him as bishop.
After the fall of communism, he was unable to reach agreement with Cardinal. Vlkem, a former colleague of the underground or the Apostolic See, and therefore did not join the structures of the official Church, but remained in the "underground", leading a small community of married secret priests, their wives and a small lay group in Prague. Over time, his views have become increasingly liberal, so that they are often no longer within the limits of Catholic orthodoxy. Famous for Of the postulate, men should be confessing not to the priest, but to their wives.
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