Fra Augustin Miletić (1763–1831) was a Bosnian Franciscan and prelate of the

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who served as the apostolic vicar of Bosnia from 1813 to his death in 1831.

Biography

Fra Augustin Miletić was born 16 February 1763 in

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. He entered the Franciscan order after ending the primary education in Fojnica. He finished high school in

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and studied philosophy and theology in Italy. When he finished his studies he became a professor of philosophy and theology in

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and

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. Later he became a bishop of

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(1798–1813), and in the same year, he became also the Apostolic administration of the Apostolic Vicariate in Bosnia. After the bishop Grgo Ilijić's death, he was appointed bishop of the same Vicariate (1813–1831). Fra Augustin Miletić died in

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1831, during one of his many pastoral visits. The chronicler Fra Mato Mitić wrote about Augustin Miletić in following way: "''All I can say, for another prelate of his stature among Bosniaks to appear, many centuries will pass''."

References

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