The Czech Roman Catholic Church withdrew its complaint over the ownership of St Vitus Cathedral at Prague Castle following an agreement under which the state and the church would take care of the cathedral jointly, Constitutional Court (US) spokeswoman Jana Pelcova told CTK yesterday. President Vaclav Klaus and Prague Archbishop Dominik Duka, the Catholic Church primate, signed the agreement on joint care in May.
The Constitutional Court will probably stop dealing with the long state-church dispute that started in 1992.
The court panel that dealt with the case is yet to issue an official statement on its end, Pelcova said.
This is a standard procedure, however, she added.
The Metropolitan Chapter that represented the church in the dispute withdrew the complaint a few days ago.
The state and the church reached consensus shortly after Duka became Prague Archbishop this April.
Duka and Klaus agreed in May to set up a council for the cathedral's management whose members will be the holders of the seven keys to the room where the coronation jewels are kept in St Wenceslas Chapel in the cathedral, including the president, the prime minister, the Prague Archbishop, the chairpersons of the lower and upper houses of parliament, the St Vitus Metropolitan Chapter's provost and the mayor of Prague.
St Vitus Cathedral was founded in the 14th century and fully completed in 1929.
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