Archbishop Milan Zgrablić (born 29 August 1960) is a Croatian

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prelate who currently serves as a Coadjutor Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Zadar since 7 April 2022.

Early life and education

Bishop Zgrablić was born as the fifth child into a

family of Josip and Josipa Zgrablić in the upper

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coast of Croatia. After graduation the primary school in Pazin in 1976 and Minor Seminary in Pazin (1976–1978), he attended gymnasium at the Zmajević Minor Seminary in

Zadar Zadar ( , ; historically known as Zara (from Venetian and Italian: ); see also other names), is the oldest continuously inhabited Croatian city. It is situated on the Adriatic Sea, at the northwestern part of Ravni Kotari region. Zadar serv ...

(1978–1980) and consequently joined the Major Theological Seminary in

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and in the same time to the University of Rijeka, where studied until 1986, and was ordained as

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on 8 June 1986 for the Diocese of Poreč-Pula, after completed his philosophical and theological studies. From 1992 until 1994 he continued his postgraduate studies in spirituality at the

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Pastoral work

After his ordination to the priesthood, he was the parish vicar in Rovinj (1986–1987), prefect of the Archdiocesan Zmajević Minor Seminary in

(1987–1990), and after returning to his Diocese of Poreč-Pula, he was the diocesan commissioner for spiritual vocations (1990–1992). When returned from Rome, Fr. Zgrablić served head of the Pazin College with the Classical Gymnasium (1994–1997), when he took over the position of director of the diocesan Caritas until 2007. At the same time he was a parish priest in Rovinj for eight years (1997–2015). Since 2008, he has also run the Diocesan Institution for the Support of Clergy and Other Church Officials. From September 2015 until April 2022, he was appointed cathedral pastor in Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of Mary in

Poreč Poreč (; it, Parenzo; la, Parens or ; grc, Πάρενθος, Párenthos) is a town and municipality on the western coast of the Istrian peninsula, in Istria County, west Croatia. Its major landmark is the 6th-century Euphrasian Basilica, whic ...

and since 2019, he has been a canon of the Cathedral of St. Mavra in Poreč.

Prelate

On 7 April 2022, Fr. Zgrablić was appointed by

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as a Coadjutor Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Zadar and his consecration took place on 25 June 2022 in the Cathedral of St. Anastasia in

References

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