Tomáš Butta
Tomáš Butta is the eighth patriarch of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church.
In 1984 Butta graduated from seminary and was ordained as a priest. He received appointment as a rector in the Hradec Králové Region. In 1997 he acquired his doctorate in theology from Charles University in Prague.
On 23 September 2006 he was elected to the position of patriarch of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church. He replaced Jan Schwarz who had resigned in 2005.
