in Breslau, the diocese possessed, as episcopal institutions for the training of the clergy, 5 preparatory seminaries for boys, 1 home (recently much enlarged) for theological students attending the university, and 1 seminary for priests in Breslau. The statistics of the houses of the religious orders in the dioceses were as follows: Benedictines, 1 house Dominicans, 1 Franciscans, 8 Jesuits, 3 Piarists, 1 Brothers of Mercy, 8 Order of St. Camillus of Lellis, 1 Redemptorists, 1 Congregation of the Society of the Divine Word, 1 Alexian Brothers, 1 Poor Brothers of St. Francis, 2 Sisters of St. Elizabeth, 6 Magdalen Sisters, 1 Ursulines, 6 Sisters of the Good Shepherd, 4 Sisters of St. Charles Borromeo, (a) from the mother-house at Trebnitz, 181, (b) from the mother-house at Trier, 5 Servants of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, 2 Sisters of Poor Handmaids of Christ, 3 Sister-Servants of Mary, 27 German Dominican Sisters of St. Catharine of Siena, 11 Sisters of St. Francis, 9 Grey Sisters of St. Elizabeth, 169 Sisters of St. Hedwig, 9 Sisters of Mary, 27 Poor School-Sisters of Notre Dame, 15 Vincentian Sisters, 7 Sisters of the Holy Cross, 1 Sisters of St. Joseph, 1 In the above-mentioned monastic houses for men there were 512 religious; in those for women, 5,208 religious. Within the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, Czechoslovakia and the Second Polish Republic After World War I, the Poles and Czechs regained independence, and the Duchy of Teschen, until 1918 politically an Austro-Bohemian fief and ecclesiastically a part of the Breslau diocese, was politically divided into a Czechoslovakian western and a Polish eastern part (Cieszyn/Těšín Silesia), even dividing its capital into Czech Těšín and Polish Cieszyn. However, the ecclesiastical affiliation remained unchanged, the Breslau diocese, a cross-border bilateral bishopric since 1742 between – at last – Germany and Austro-Hungary, thus turned into a trilateral Czechoslovakian-German-Polish bishopric. Since 1770 the prince-bishop had appointed separate vicars general for the Bohemian (or Austrian, since 1918 partially Czechoslovakian and Polish, resp.) part of the diocese. Also the Dioceses of Hradec Králové and of Olomouc comprised cross-border diocesan territories in Czechoslovakian Bohemia and smaller parts in German Silesia (Hradec Kr. diocese: Bad Altheide, Glatz, Habelschwerdt and Neurode; Olomouc archdiocese: Branitz, Katscher, Leobschütz and Owschütz). So also the Roman Catholic parishes in Czechoslovakian Těšín Silesia remained part of Breslau diocese. Following the German–Polish Convention regarding Upper Silesia, signed in Geneva on 15 May