Mate Garković (12 September 1882 - 26 May 1968) was the
Roman Catholic
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archbishop of the
Archdiocese of Zadar
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.
Life
Garković was born on 12 September 1882 in
Veli Rat
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on the island of
Dugi Otok
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in
Dalmatia, then
Austria-Hungary
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. Ordained as a Roman Catholic priest on 28 July 1907, he was firstly pedagogue in the ''Zmajević'' minor seminary in Zadar where he stayed until 1914. In 1914, he was appointed parish priest of
Preko
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and dean of the Ugljan Deanery. When the Italians occupied Dalmatia, Garković was arrested and imprisoned for six months in
Sestrunj
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. Then returned to Preko where he remained until 1925. Next 20 years, he has worked as a professor of
pastoral theology
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and
Hebrew
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in
Split
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.
Garković was appointed Apostolic Administrator of
Zadar
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on 22 February 1952. He was consecrated as bishop by Miho Pušić, archbishop of
Hvar
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on 30 March 1952. Garković was appointed the archbishop of Zadar on 24 December 1960.
Garković died on 26 May 1968, aged 85 in Zadar. He was buried in the
Cathedral of St. Anastasia, Zadar.
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1882 births
1968 deaths
Archbishops of Zadar
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