Ivan Prenđa (31 December 1939 in
Gornji Zemunik – 25 January 2010 in
Zagreb
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) was the
Roman Catholic
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archbishop of the
Archdiocese of Zadar
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Ordained
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to the priesthood on 29 June 1964, for the Zadar Archdiocese, Prenđa was appointed
Coadjutor Archbishop The term coadjutor (or coadiutor, literally "co-assister" in Latin) is a title qualifier indicating that the holder shares the office with another person, with powers equal to the other in all but formal order of precedence.
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of the archdiocese on 29 March 1990 and was ordained into that office on 9 June 1990. Archbishop Prenđa became the archbishop of Zadar on 6 February 1996.
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1939 births
2010 deaths
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20th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Croatia
Archbishops of Zadar
21st-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Croatia
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