Karel Farský

{{Short description|Czech Christian priest and religious leader}}

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| image = Th._Dr._Karel_Farský.jpg

| name = Karel Farský

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1880|7|26|df=y}}

| birth_place = Škodějov, Semily District, Bohemia

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1927|6|12|1880|7|26|df=y}}

| death_place = Prague, Czechoslovakia

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Karel Farský (26 July 1880, in Škodějov, Semily District, Bohemia – 12 June 1927, in Prague) was a Czech Roman Catholic priest, and later founder and first patriarch (1920) of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church.[http://www.ccshrakovnik.org/noccsh.rak.historie02.html "Historie Církve československé v Rakovníku"]{{Dead link|date=March 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} ("History of the Czechoslovakian Church within Rakovnik") He was Bishop of the West Bohemia (Prague) Diocese of the Czechoslovak Church from 1923 when he became the first patriarch of the church keeping both titles of patriarch and bishop until his death in 1927. He was succeeded by Gustav Adolf Procházka who took office in 1928.