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After World War I, Greek Catholic Church had been brought from the previous era to the new constitutional circumstances reputation of the subject willing to cooperate with former governmental authorities on magyarization of its believers. The Church had thus necessarily to undergo the process of adaptation to the new conditions of democratic and nationally Slavic oriented first Czechoslovak Republic. One manifestation of this was the modification of its management structures. The present study discusses about competing factions within the leadership of ecclesial province struggling for the post of new apostolic administrator, which were differentiated based on national and cultural preferences and attitudes to then actual state power.