Pavao Zorčić,
O.S.B.M.
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(c.1620 – 23 January 1685) was a
Croatian Greek Catholic hierarch. He was the titular bishop of
Plataea and Vicar Apostolic of
Marča from 1671 to 1685.
Life
He was born in
Sveti Ivan Žabno,
Habsburg's Kingdom of Croatia (present-day
Croatia
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) around 1620. As a young person he joined a monastery in
Ivanić-Grad
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Geography
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and was an author of an apology about unity with the
Holy See
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.
He was appointed as the Bishop by the
Holy See
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on 20 November 1671, and
consecrated to the
Episcopate
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on January 1672. The principal
consecrator
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was Archbishop
Onofrio Costantini.
Bishop Pavao Zorčić was a fiery apologetic against the attacks of the
Orthodox
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against the Greek Catholic
Union of Marča.
In this sense he erected the
Greek Catholic Seminary in Zagreb (1680), which started its work in the academic year 1681. It is the oldest Greek Catholic seminary (maius) in Europe outside Rome.
He died in Marča (present-day Stara Marča in
Zagreb County
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, Croatia) on 23 January 1685.
References
1620 births
1685 deaths
17th-century Eastern Catholic bishops
Croatian Eastern Catholics
Greek Catholic Church of Croatia and Serbia
Order of Saint Basil the Great
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