Editing Plzeň (section)

==Religion==
[[File:Great Synagogue in Pilsen-2010.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Great Synagogue (Plzeň)|Great Synagogue]] in Plzeň]]
Since 31 May 1993 Plzeň has been the seat of the [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Plzeň]]. The first bishop (current bishop emeritus) was František Radkovský. The current bishop is Tomáš Holub. The diocese covers an area with a total of 818,700 inhabitants.{{citation needed|date=October 2020}} The diocesan see is in St. Bartholomew's Cathedral on Republiky Square in Plzeň. The diocese is divided into 10 vicariates with a total of 72 parishes.

The seat of the West Bohemian seniorate (literary presbytery; Central European protestant equivalent of a diocese) of [[Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren]] is currently set in Plzeň. The current senior is Miroslav Hamari, the preacher of Koranda parish congregation of the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren in Plzeň, commonly known as Koranda congregation located in the city centre of Plzeň. The senioral churchwarden is Josef Beneš, the parish churchwarden of the same congregation. There are two other parish congregations of Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren in the [[Plzeň-City District]] – The Western congregation of the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren in Plzeň, known as The Western congregation located in the Western part of the city in the borough of Jižní předměstí and The Congregation of the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren in Chrást located in [[Chrást (Plzeň-City District)|Chrást]] in the very east of Plzeň-City District.

The seat of Plzeň diocese of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church is located in Plzeň (although the bishop has resided in [[Mirovice]] for several years due to a reconstruction of episcopacy). The current bishop is Filip Štojdl.

The Czech Evangelical Lutheran Church is headquartered in Plzeň.<ref name="luterani.cz">{{Cite web|url=https://www.luterani.cz/|title=Luterani CZ|website=Luterani CZ|accessdate=11 October 2023}}</ref> St. Paul's Lutheran Church is a church of the Czech Evangelical Lutheran Church in Plzeň.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://celc.info/membership/member-churches/czech-evangelical-lutheran-church/|title=Czech Evangelical Lutheran Church|website=celc.info|accessdate=11 October 2023}}</ref>

The other churches also present in Plzeň are the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in the Czech Republic, the United Methodist Church, the Seventh-day Adventist Church, the Church of Brethren, the Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia, the Greek Catholic Church, and others.