The

Roman Catholic Roman or Romans most often refers to: * Rome, the capital city of Italy *Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD * Roman people, the people of ancient Rome *'' Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a let ...

Archdiocese of Zagreb ( hr, Zagrebačka nadbiskupija, la, Archidioecesis Zagrebiensis) is the central

archdiocese In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop. History In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associat ...

of the

Catholic Church in Croatia , native_name_lang = hr , image = St. Peter's Cathedral, Dakovo.jpg , imagewidth = 200px , alt = , caption = Đakovo Cathedral. , abbreviation = , type = Nation ...

, centered in the capital city

Zagreb Zagreb ( , , , ) is the capital (political), capital and List of cities and towns in Croatia#List of cities and towns, largest city of Croatia. It is in the Northern Croatia, northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slop ...

. It is the

metropolitan see Metropolitan may refer to: * Metropolitan area, a region consisting of a densely populated urban core and its less-populated surrounding territories * Metropolitan borough, a form of local government district in England * Metropolitan county, a t ...

of Croatia, and the present archbishop is

Josip Bozanić Josip Bozanić (; born 20 March 1949) is a Croatian Cardinal of the Catholic Church. He is the eighth Archbishop of Zagreb, having previously served as Bishop of Krk from 1989 to 1997. He was elevated to the cardinalate in 2003. He is a member ...

.Metropolitan Archdiocese of Zagreb
gcatholic.org. It encompasses the northwestern continental areas of Croatia.

Suffragan dioceses

Roman Catholic Diocese of Bjelovar-Križevci The Roman Catholic Diocese of Bjelovar-Križevci ( hr, Bjelovarsko-križevačka biskupija; la, Dioecesis Bellovariensis-Crisiensis) is a diocese in the Ecclesiastical province of Zagreb in Croatia. On December 5, 2009 Pope Benedict XVI erected ...

* Eparchy of Križevci ''( Greek-Catholic)'' *

Roman Catholic Diocese of Sisak The Diocese of Sisak ( hr, Sisačka biskupija; la, Dioecesis Sisciensis) is a Latin Church diocese in the Sisak-Moslavina region, Croatia. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Zagreb. ...

Roman Catholic Diocese of Varaždin The Roman Catholic Diocese of Varaždin is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in northern Croatia. The diocese is centred in the city of Varaždin. It is a new diocese, having only been erected on July 5, 1997 from the ...

Origin

The diocese of Zagreb was founded by Saint Ladislaus I of Hungary in 1094. On November 11, 1852, it was elevated to the status of an archdiocese.

Ordinaries

;Bishops * Fancica (''c''. 1125/28–1131) *

Dominic Dominic is a name common among Roman Catholics and other Latin-Romans as a male given name. Originally from the late Roman-Italic name "Dominicus", its translation means "Lordly", "Belonging to God" or "of the Master". Variations include: Domini ...

(1193–1201) * Stephen II (1225–1247) * Philip Türje (1247–1262) * Farkas Bejc (1262–1263; elected) * Timothy (1263–1287) *

Anthony Anthony or Antony is a masculine given name, derived from the '' Antonii'', a ''gens'' ( Roman family name) to which Mark Antony (''Marcus Antonius'') belonged. According to Plutarch, the Antonii gens were Heracleidae, being descendants of Anton, ...

(1287) * Michael Bő (1295–1303) * Augustin Kažotić (1303–1323) * Nicholas Vásári (1349) *

Nicholas Apáti Nicholas Apáti (also Keszei; hu, Apáti Miklós; died November/December 1366) was a Hungarian prelate in the 14th century, who served as Archbishop of Esztergom from 1358 until his death. Ancestry and early life His origin is uncertain; it is p ...

(1350–1356) *

Paul Horvat Paul Horvat ( hr, Pavao Horvat; hu, Pál Horváti) was a Hungarian and Croatian nobleman and the 28th bishop of Zagreb. Paul was the brother of Ladislaus and John Horvat, and the nephew of John of Palisna. Paul, who succeeded Cardinal Demete ...

(1379–1386) * Thomas de Branche de Debrentha,

O.S.B. , image = Medalla San Benito.PNG , caption = Design on the obverse side of the Saint Benedict Medal , abbreviation = OSB , formation = , motto = (English: 'Pray and Work') , found ...

(11 October 1454 – 13 January 1463) *

Nicolaus Olahus Nicolaus Olahus (Latin for ''Nicholas, the Vlach''; hu, Oláh Miklós; ro, Nicolae Valahul); 10 January 1493 – 15 January 1568) was the Archbishop of Esztergom, Primate of Hungary, and a distinguished Catholic prelate, humanist and historiogr ...

(1543–1548) * Juraj Drašković (22 March 1564 – 27 October 1578) * Nikola Stepanić Selnički (1598–1602) * Miklós Zelniczey Naprady (15 December 1600 – 1604) * Šimun Bratulić, O.S.P.P.E. (13 September 1604 – 1611) * Petar Domitrović (15 July 1613 – 1629) * Franjo Ergelski Hasanović (17 December 1629 – 1642) * Benedikt Vinković (28 April 1642 – 1643) * Martin Bogdan (1643–1647) *

Petar Petretić Petar Petretić (1604 – 12 October 1667) was a historian, linguist, and Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Zagreb (1648–1667). Activities related to Serbs With accentuated hatred Petretić (and Benedikt Vinković) wrote num ...

(1648 – 3 August 1667) * Martin Borković, O.S.P.P.E. (11 June 1668 – 31 October 1687) * Aleksandar Ignacije Mikulić Brokunovečki (11 October 1688 – 11 May 1694) * Stjepan Seliščević (10 January 1695 – 1 April 1703) * Márton Brajkovićs (14 January 1704 – 4 June 1708) * Imre Esterházy, O.S.P.P.E. (9 September 1709 – 17 March 1727) * Juraj Branjug (26 November 1727 – 28 April 1748) * Franjo Klobusiczky (2 December 1748 – 20 Dec 1751) * Franjo Thauszy (24 January 1752 – 11 January 1769) * Ivan Krstitelj Paxy (10 September 1770 appointed – 20 December 1771) * Josip Galjuf (14 December 1772 – 3 February 1786) *

Maksimilijan Vrhovac Maksimilijan Vrhovac (23 November 1752 in Karlovac – 16 December 1827 in Zagreb) was the bishop of Zagreb. He was one of the ideological architects of the Croatian national revival, and is notable for founding the Maksimir Park in 1787, one of ...

(10 March 1788 – 16 December 1827) * Aleksandar Alagović (15 March 1830 – 18 March 1837) ;Archbishops *

Juraj Haulik Juraj Haulik de Váralya ( sk, Juraj Haulík Váralyai, hu, Haulík Váralyai György; 20 April 1788 – 11 May 1869) was a Croatian cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church of Slovak ethnicity and the first archbishop of Zagreb. He was also acti ...

(2 October 1837 – 11 May 1869) * Josip Mihalović (27 June 1870 – 19 February 1891) * Juraj Posilović (18 May 1894 – 26 April 1914) * Antun Bauer (26 April 1914 – 9 December 1937) *

Alojzije Stepinac Aloysius Viktor Cardinal Stepinac ( hr, Alojzije Viktor Stepinac, 8 May 1898 – 10 February 1960) was a senior-ranking Yugoslav Croat prelate of the Catholic Church. A cardinal, Stepinac served as Archbishop of Zagreb from 1937 until his dea ...

(7 December 1937 – 10 February 1960) *

Franjo Šeper Franjo Šeper (2 October 1905 – 30 December 1981) was a Croatian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith from 1968 to 1981, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1965. ...

(5 March 1960 – 20 August 1969) * Franjo Kuharić (16 June 1970 – 5 July 1997) *

(5 July 1997 – present)

Auxiliary Bishops

* Franjo Salis-Seewis, titular bishop of

Corycus Corycus ( el, Κώρυκος; also transliterated Corycos or Korykos; hy, Կոռիկոս, translit=Koṙikos; tr, Kız Kalesi, lit. "maiden castle") was an ancient city in Cilicia Trachaea, Anatolia, located at the mouth of the valley call ...

(23 April 1926 – 27 October 1967) * Josip Lach, titular bishop of Dodona (11 December 1939 – 12 September 1983) * Franjo Kuharić, titular bishop of Meta (15 February 1964 – 16 June 1970) * Josip Salač, titular bishop of Baliana (16 June 1970 – 19 December 1975) * Mijo Škvorc, S.J., titular bishop of

Hadrumetum Hadrumetum, also known by many variant spellings and names, was a Phoenician colony that pre-dated Carthage. It subsequently became one of the most important cities in Roman Africa before Vandal and Umayyad conquerors left it ruined. In the early ...

(16 June 1970 – 15 February 1989) * Đuro Kokša, titular bishop of Grumentum (20 April 1978 – 26 November 1998) * Juraj Jezerinac, titular bishop of Strumnitza (11 April 1991 – 25 April 1997) *

Marko Culej Bishop Marko Culej (19 January 1938 – 19 August 2006) was a Croatian Roman Catholic prelate who served as the first Diocesan Bishop of the newly created Roman Catholic Diocese of Varaždin from 5 July 1997 until his death on 19 August 2006. Pr ...

, titular bishop of

Limata Limata was a Roman era city of Byzacena, in Roman North Africa.Joseph Bingham, ''Origines Ecclesiasticae'' Volume 3 (Straker, 1843p236 It was home to the Bishop A bishop is an ordained clergy member who is entrusted with a position of autho ...

(7 January 1992 – 5 July 1997) *

Josip Mrzljak Josip Mrzljak (born 19 January 1944, in Vukovar) was the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Varaždin from 2007 to 2019. His father Vladimir went missing in 1945, and is thought to have been killed by the Yugoslav Partisans. Mrzljak was orda ...

, titular bishop of

Caltadria The diocese of Caltadria ( la, Dioecesis Caltadriensis, link=no) is a suppressed and titular see of the Roman Catholic Church. The location of the bishopric's original cathedra is now lost but it was in today's Algeria, and is recorded of the ...

(29 December 1998 – 20 March 2007) * Vlado Košić, titular bishop of Ruspae (29 December 1998 – 5 December 2009) * Valentin Pozaić, S.J., titular bishop of Petina (2 February 2005 – 13 May 2017) * Ivan Šaško, titular bishop of Rotaria (11 February 2008 – present) * Mijo Gorski, titular bishop of Epidaurum (3 May 2010 – present)

References

1093 establishments in Europe Roman Catholic dioceses established in the 11th century *

Organizations based in Zagreb *Roman Catholic Archdiocese {{Europe-RC-diocese-stub