Career
His cause for sainthood has opened and he is known as a Servant of God. Priesthood and episcopate
Born in 1905, he grew up in times of hardship in his family, especially with the death of his father. He was a Junák Boy Scout and was later a Salesian monk.
Pope Pius XII appointed him as Bishop of Litoměřice in 1947.
After the war Trochta was spokesman of the Czechoslovakian Episcopal Conference in negotiations with the communist government from 1948 to 1949. In 1954, after a two-day trial, the supreme court sentenced him to 25 years in prison for spying for the Vatican.
Cardinalate and death
He was named a cardinal in pectore in the consistory of 28 April 1969 by Pope Paul VI, and that appointment was published in the consistory of 5 March 1973. He died on 6 April 1974 in Litoměřice.
Currently, his cause of beatification is being prepared.