The Cathedral of Saint Bonaventure in

Banja Luka Banja Luka ( sr-Cyrl, Бања Лука, ) or Banjaluka ( sr-Cyrl, Бањалука, ) is the second largest city in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the largest city of Republika Srpska. Banja Luka is also the ''de facto'' capital of this entity. I ...

is one of four Roman Catholic

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s in

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. It is the seat of the Banja Luka Bishopric currently led by Bishop

Franjo Komarica Franjo Komarica (born 3 February 1946) is a Bosnian prelate of the Catholic Church, the Bishop emeritus of Banja Luka and president of the Bishops' Conference of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Early life One of eleven children, Komarica was born in N ...

. The cathedral was built in honor of Saint Bonaventure, a

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from the Middle Ages. It was constructed by Alfred Pichler in the 1970s after the original had been damaged in an earthquake. The building suffered damage in the

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, but was reinaugurated in 2001 after the completion of repairs.

Burials

Marijan Marković Marijan Marković (October 20, 1840 – June 20, 1912) was Bosnian Croat Franciscan friar of the Franciscan Province of Bosna Srebrena, bishop and apostolic administrator of Banja Luka. Biography Marković was born at Dolac, near Travnik in Ce ...

* Alfred Pichler

References

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