Bishop Anton Jamnik (born 27 July 1961) is a Slovenian

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prelate who serves as a Titular Bishop of Vina and Auxiliary Bishop of

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of the historical region of

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. After finishing primary school in

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in 1976, Anton graduated a Josip Jurčič Gymnasium in Stična with the secondary education during 1976–1980 and also served his compulsory military service in the

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(1980–1981). After that, he joined to the Major Theological Seminary in

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and in the same time joined the Theological Faculty at the

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, where he studied six years (1981–1987) and was ordained as a

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on 29 June 1985 by archbishop Alojzij Šuštar for his native Archdiocese of Ljubljana. Coat of arms of Anton Jamnik

Pastoral and educational work

After his ordination Fr. Jamnik was engaged in pastoral work and served as priest in

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parish from 1987 until 1990, and from 1990 to 1994 he was a personal assistant of the Archbishop of Ljubljana. During this time he continued his master's studies at the Department of Philosophy of the Faculty of Theology,

, and in 1993 he defended his master's thesis. In 1994 he was appointed an assistant at the Department of Philosophy of the Faculty of Theology. In the same year he moved to the Institute of St. Stanislav, where he taught religion and later philosophy at the Diocesan Classical Gymnasium. He continued his doctoral studies and completed his studies with a

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degree in 1997. Since 1997 he has been an assistant professor of philosophy at the Faculty of Theology, University of Ljubljana, and in 2012 he was elected and appointed associate professor of philosophy at the Faculty of Theology, University of Ljubljana.

Prelate

On 15 November 2005 he was appointed by

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as the Titular Bishop of Vina and Auxiliary Bishop of the

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and other prelates of the

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in the Cathedral of St. Nicholas in

References

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