František Kovář

František Kovář (2 September 1888, Sebranice - 12 June 1969, Prague) was the third patriarch of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church.

František Kovář
Born	2 September 1888 Sebranice, Blansko District, Czechoslovakia
Died	12 June 1969 Prague, Czechoslovakia

Hr was formerly a Czech Roman Catholic reformist priest, later a theologian, journalist, translator, editor, spiritual leader of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church.

František Kovář (Doctor of Theology, PhD) was Dean of Hus's Czechoslovak Evangelical Faculty of Theology (in Czech, Husovy československé evangelické fakulty bohoslovecké - HČEFB) at Charles University (in Czech Univerzita Karlova) in Prague.

After death of Patriarch Gustav Adolf Procházka in 1942, the position remained vacant until 1946 when František Kovář was elected third bishop-patriarch of the Czechoslovak (Hussite) Church ruling from 1946 to 1961 setting down when he was 73 and Miroslav Novák succeeded him as patriarch. Kovář died in 1969.