Živko Kustić (12 December 1930 – 19 July 2014) was a Croatian writer. Kustić studied mathematics, physics, and theology at the

University of Zagreb The University of Zagreb ( hr, Sveučilište u Zagrebu, ; la, Universitas Studiorum Zagrabiensis) is the largest Croatian university and the oldest continuously operating university in the area covering Central Europe south of Vienna and all of ...

before being ordained as a priest of the

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in Žumberak in 1958. He was the editor of

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-published weekly ''

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'' from 1963 until 1990. In 1993, Kustić was appointed the first

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of the established by the Episcopal Conference of Croatia. He held the position until 1999. Kustić died in Zagreb in 2014. During the Croatian Spring, among many others, Kustić was accused of stirring up

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views.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kustic, Zivko 1930 births 2014 deaths Writers from Split, Croatia 20th-century Croatian writers 20th-century Croatian Roman Catholic priests