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Franjo Kuharić
Franjo Kuharić (15 April 1919 – 11 March 2002) was a Croatian Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Zagreb from 1970 until his resignation in 1997. Made a cardinal in 1983, he was known as the "Rock of Croatia" because of his defense of human rights and urgings of peace and forgiveness during the independence conflict and the Bosnian War. Kuharić was a vocal supporter of the cause for the canonization of Cardinal Alojzije Stepinac (who had ordained him as a priest in 1945). He worked to rehabilitate the image of the cardinal during his episcopate, eventually leading to Stepinac's 1998 beatification in Zagreb. Kuharić's own cause for canonization commenced on 11 March 2012 and he has been titled as a Servant of God. Life Franjo Kuharić was born on 15 April 1919 in Pribić as the thirteenth and final child born to his poor parents Ivan Kuharić and Ana Blažić. In 1934, he began his theological and philosophical education at the archdiocesan classical lyc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
His Eminence
His Eminence (abbreviation H.Em. or HE) is a style (manner of address), style of reference for high nobility, still in use in various religious contexts. Catholicism The style remains in use as the official style or standard form of address in reference to a cardinal (Catholicism), cardinal of the Catholic Church, reflecting his status as a Prince of the Church. A longer, and more formal, title is "His [or Your when addressing the cardinal directly] Most Reverend Eminence". Patriarchs of Eastern Catholic Churches who are also cardinals may be addressed as "His Eminence" or by the style particular to Catholic patriarchs, His Beatitude. When the Grand master (order), Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, the head of state of their sovereign territorial state comprising the island of Malta until 1797, who had already been made a Reichsfürst (i.e., prince of the Holy Roman Empire) in 1607, became (in terms of honorary order of precedence, not in the actual churc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Zagreb
The University of Zagreb (, ) is a public university, public research university in Zagreb, Croatia. It is the largest Croatian university and one of the oldest continuously operating universities in Europe. The University of Zagreb and the University North are the only public universities operating in Northern Croatia, Northern and Central Croatia. The history of the University began on September 23, 1669, when the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, Leopold I issued a decree granting the establishment of the ''Jesuit Academy of the Royal Free City of Zagreb''. The decree was accepted at the Council of the Croatian Kingdom on November 3, 1671. The Academy was run by the Jesuits for more than a century until the order was dissolved by Pope Clement XIV in 1773. In 1776, Empress Maria Theresa issued a decree founding the ''Royal Academy of Science'' which succeeded the previous Jesuit Academy. Bishop Josip Juraj Strossmayer proposed the founding of a University to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catholic Church In Croatia
The Catholic Church in Croatia () is part of the worldwide Catholic Church that is under the spiritual leadership of the Pope. The Latin Church in Croatia is administered by the Croatian Bishops' Conference centered in Zagreb, and it comprises five archdioceses, 13 dioceses and one Military Ordinariate of Croatia, military ordinariate. Dražen Kutleša is the Archbishop of Zagreb. A 2011 census estimated that there were 3.7 million baptized Latin Catholics and about 20,000 baptized Eastern Catholic Churches, Eastern Catholics of the Greek Catholic Church of Croatia and Serbia in Croatia, comprising 86.3% of the population. , weekly church attendance was relatively high compared to other Catholic nations in Europe, at around 27%. A 2021 Croatian census showed that 83% of the population is Catholic and 3.3% is Serbian Orthodox. The national sanctuary of Croatia is in Marija Bistrica, while the country's patron is Saint Joseph: the Croatian Parliament unanimously declared him to be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antun Škvorčević
Antun Škvorčević (born 8 May 1947) is a Croatian Roman Catholic prelate, who served as a diocesan bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Požega since 1997 until 2024. Early life and education Antun Škvorčević was born in a small village of Davor on 8 May 1947 to Ivan and Ljubičica Škvorčević. He enrolled in primary school in Davor, and Zagreb, eventually graduating in Slavonski Brod, after which he attended high school (Classical catholic gymnasium) for future priests on Šalata in Zagreb. Škvorčević graduated from Zagreb Catholic Theological Faculty, where he also gained his master's degree, after which he went to Rome for additional specialization. In 1981 he gained his doctorate in theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University. In addition, he graduated liturgy from the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Liturgy. Career Antun Škvorčević was ordered for a priest of the Archdiocese of Zagreb on 25 June 1972. After ordination, he worked as a chaplain in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ante Ivas
Bishop Ante Ivas (born 26 December 1939) is a Croatian Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Diocesan Bishop of Šibenik since 5 February 1997 until his retirement on 3 June 2016. Education Bishop Ivas was born into a Croatian Roman Catholic family of Stjepan and Iva (née Birin) in Vodice near Šibenik. After graduation a primary school in his native Vodice and a classical gymnasium in the diocesan seminary in Zadar, he consequently joined the Theological Faculty at the University of Zagreb, where he studied until 1964, and was ordained as priest on July 5, 1964 for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Šibenik, after completed his philosophical and theological studies. Pastoral work Fr. Ivas served as the assistant priest in the cathedral parish in Šibenik (1964–1966). Thereafter he served as a parish priest in several parishes: from 1966 to 1977 in Šibenik - Njivice; from 1977 to 1980 in Grebaštica; from 1980 to 1992 in Murter, and then in Zaton and Raslina. From 1988 h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Đuro Gašparović
Bishop Đuro Gašparović ( sr-cyr, Ђуро Гашпаровић; born 20 June 1951) is a Roman Catholic prelate, Diocesan Bishop emeritus of the newly reestablished Diocese of Srijem in Serbia since 18 June 2008 until 14 February 2024. Previously he was a Titular Bishop of Mattiana and an Auxiliary Bishop of Djakovo or Bosna and Srijem in Croatia from 5 July 1996 until 18 June 2008. Education Bishop Gašparović was born into a Vojvodina Croats Roman Catholic family of Antun and Ruža () near Stara Pazova. After graduation from the school in his native town in 1966 and the classical gymnasium in the Minor Interdiocesan Seminary in Zagreb in 1968, he made the maturity exam at the Lyceum in Đakovo in 1970 and consequently joined the Major Theological Seminary in Đakovo, where he studied from 1972 until 1977, and was ordained as priest on 29 June 1977 for the Diocese of Đakovo or Bosnia and Syrmia by Bishop Ćiril Kos, after completed his philosophical and theological st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ratko Perić
Ratko Perić (born 2 February 1944) is a prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the bishop of Mostar-Duvno and apostolic administrator of Trebinje-Mrkan from 1993 until his retirement in 2020. After his retirement in July 2020, he briefly served as the apostolic administrator of both dioceses until the instalment of his successor Petar Palić in September 2020. Two issues, inherited from his predecessors, marked his episcopate: the Herzegovina Affair and the question of the alleged apparitions in Medjugorje. Regarding the first issue, the division of parishes between the Franciscan Province of Herzegovina and the diocese, Perić insisted on the implementation of '' Romanis Pontificibus'', which decreed that Franciscans are ought to handover several parishes in Herzegovina. The parishes in question remained occupied by the Franciscans, with friars holding them being expelled from the Franciscan Order and banned from doing their priestly duties. Regarding the alleged app ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marko Culej
Marko Culej (19 January 1938 – 19 August 2006) was a Croatian Catholic prelate who served as the first Bishop of Varaždin from 1997 until his death in 2006. He previously served as Auxiliary Bishop of Zagreb from 1992 to 1997. Early life and education Culej was born into a Catholic family of Petar and Josipa (née Bočkal) near Zlatar in the Hrvatsko Zagorje region as one among six children. After graduating from primary school in Belac in 1949, he continued at the Inter-Diocesan Minor Seminary in Zagreb, he consequently joined the Major Theological Seminary in Zagreb and at the same time the University of Zagreb in 1957. The next year he interrupted his studies for the compulsory service in the Yugoslavian Army (1958–1959), and returned to his priesthood formation in the seminary, where he studied until 1964, and was ordained as priest on April 24, 1964 for the Archdiocese of Zagreb, after completed his philosophical and theological studies. Early career After ordina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juraj Jezerinac
Bishop Juraj Jezerinac (born 23 April 1939) is a Croatian Roman Catholic prelate who served as a Titular Bishop of Strumnitza and Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Zagreb from 11 April 1991 until 25 April 1997 and the first Ordinary of the new created Military Ordinariate of Croatia since 25 April 1997 until his retirement on 30 November 2015. Education Bishop Jezerinac was born into a Croatian Roman Catholic family of Mijo and Barica (née Bradica) near Krašić in the Central Croatia. After graduation a classical gymnasium in Šalata, Zagreb, he consequently joined the Theological Faculty at the University of Zagreb, and was ordained as priest on 26 June 1966 for his native the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Zagreb, in Zagreb, after completed his philosophical and theological studies. Pastoral work Fr. Jezerinac from 1967 to 1969 served as chaplain in Nova Gradiška, and from 1969 to 1971 he was the parish priest in . From 1971 to 1980 he served as parish priest in the newly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Prenđa
Ivan Prenđa (31 December 1939 in Gornji Zemunik – 25 January 2010 in Zagreb) was the Roman Catholic archbishop of the Archdiocese of Zadar, Croatia. Ordained to the priesthood on 29 June 1964, for the Zadar Archdiocese, Prenđa was appointed Coadjutor Archbishop The term "coadjutor" (literally "co-assister" in Latin) is a title qualifier indicating that the holder shares the office with another person, with powers equal to the other in all but formal order of precedence. These include: * Coadjutor bishop ... of the archdiocese on 29 March 1990 and was ordained into that office on 9 June 1990. Archbishop Prenđa became the archbishop of Zadar on 6 February 1996. Notes External links 1939 births 2010 deaths Arbanasi people 20th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Croatia Archbishops of Zadar 21st-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Croatia {{Croatia-RC-archbishop-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marin Srakić
Archbishop Marin Srakić (born 6 July 1937) is a Croatian Roman Catholic prelate who served as an auxiliary bishop of Diocese of Djakovo or Bosna and Srijem, Đakovo or Bosna and Srijem and the Titular Bishop of Kerkennah Islands, Cercina (1990–1996), and after that, as a Coadjutor Bishop (1996–1997), a Diocesan Bishop (1997–2008) and the first Archbishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Đakovo-Osijek, Đakovo-Osijek since 2008, until his retirement in 2013. Education Archbishop Srakić was born into a Croatian Roman Catholic family of Marko and Katja (née Orešković) in the present-day Osijek-Baranja County. After graduation the Archdiocesan Classical Gymnasium in Šalata in Zagreb, he made the maturity exam at the lyceum of the Theological College in Đakovo and consequently joined the Theological Faculty at the University of Zagreb, where completed his studies with a Licentiate (degree), Licentiate of the Theology degree, and was ordained as priest on March 6, 1960 fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Želimir Puljić
Želimir Puljić (7 March 1947) is a Croatian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the archbishop of Zadar from 2010 to 2023 and bishop of Dubrovnik from 1989 to 2010. He briefly served as the apostolic administrator of the Archdiocese of Split-Makarska in 2023. Early life and education Puljic attended primary school in Blagaj and Mostar and finished school in Pozega, where his parents moved. From 1962 to 1966 he attended classical high school at the Diocesan Seminary in Dubrovnik. From 1966 to 1970 he studied theology in Split and continued his studies in Rome at the Pontifical Urbaniana University. In 1978 he received a diploma in Pastoral Theology from the Lateran University. In addition to his theological studies, he graduated from the Faculty of Pedagogy at the Salesian University of Rome, where he received his doctorate on 12 March 1980. Priesthood Ordained to the priesthood on 24 March 1974, for the Diocese of Mostar-Duvno, Puljić was appointed Bishop D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
