Bishop Ivo Gugić (2 March 1920 – 3 June 1996) was a Roman Catholic prelate from Croatia, who served as the Diocesan Bishop of

Kotor Kotor (Cyrillic script, Cyrillic: Котор, ), historically known as Cattaro (from Italian language, Italian: ), is a town in Coastal Montenegro, Coastal region of Montenegro. It is located in a secluded part of the Bay of Kotor. The city has ...

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Life

He was born on 2 March 1920 in the small town of

Vela Luka Vela Luka () is a small town and the only naselje , settlement in the eponymous municipality in Dubrovnik-Neretva County in southern Dalmatia, Croatia. The town is located on the western side of the island of Korčula at the bottom of a wide bay ...

on the

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in the

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. Beginning in 1983, he began serving the Church and the people of

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as a bishop in the

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. In 1996, he ended thirteen years of service as a bishop. (He was succeeded by bishop

Ilija Janjić Ilija Janjić (born 20 September 1944) is a Catholic prelate who served as the Diocesan Bishop of Kotor in Montenegro since 11 March 1996 until his retirement on 28 September 2019. Life Bishop Janjić was born into a Bosnian Croat Roman Catholic f ...

.) However, he continued to work with the

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through the committee for the protection of

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and ethnic group rights. He was murdered in the same year in which he retired as a bishop; he died on June 3, 1996, in

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* http://www.ika.hr/index.php?prikaz=vijest&ID=12297 1920 births 1996 deaths People from Vela Luka Croats of Montenegro Roman Catholic bishops of Kotor Bishops appointed by Pope John Paul II 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Montenegro Roman Catholic bishops in Yugoslavia {{RC-clergy-stub