Bishop Peter Štumpf, S.D.B. (born 28 June 1962) is a Slovenian

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prelate who serves as the second Bishop of the Diocese of Murska Sobota since 28 November 2009. Previously he was a Titular Bishop of Musti in Numidia and Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Maribor from 24 May 2006 until 28 November 2009.

Education

Bishop Štumpf was born into a Roman Catholic family in

Murska Sobota Murska Sobota (, Slovenian abbreviation: ''MS'' ; ;''Radkersburg und Luttenberg'' (map, 1:75,000). 1894. Vienna: K.u.k. Militärgeographisches Institut. ) is a town in northeastern Slovenia. It is the centre of the City Municipality of Murska Sob ...

, but grew up in

Beltinci Beltinci (; Prekmurje Slovene: ''Böltinci'', or ''Belatincz'', ) is a town in the Prekmurje region of northeastern Slovenia. It is the seat of the Municipality of Beltinci. Črnec Creek, a tributary of the Ledava, flows through the settlement. ...

in the

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region, where his parents came from. After finishing primary school in 1977, which he attended in

and a secondary school in

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, he graduated at the classical gymnasium Poljane in

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in 1983, while joined a

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of the

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and after the

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made a

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on August 9, 1980. After he completed his compulsory military service in the Yugoslav Army in 1983, Peter consequently studied at the Theological faculty at the

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from 1984 and continued his studies at the

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from 1986 and was ordained as

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on June 29, 1990 by Bishop Franc Kramberger in

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, after completed his philosophical and theological studies in 1989.

Pastoral work

After his ordination Fr. Štumpf was appointed as chaplain in the parish of Rakovnik in

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, where he worked until 1993, when he went to work as a chaplain in the parish of

Sevnica Sevnica (; ''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 4: ''Štajersko''. 1904. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 20.) is a town on the left bank of the Sava River in central Slovenia. It is the seat ...

for two years. A year later, he was appointed pastor of Ig, where he worked until 1998, and then for a year he was the parish administrator of the parish of Zabukovje nad Sevnico, and after in

. There was the pastor of the parish of St.

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, and in 2000 he was appointed pastor in

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. Since 2003 he has been the pastor of the parish of Mary Help in Rakovnik in

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. Also he served as a Dean of the deanery of Ljubljana-Vič and Rakovnik. During this time of the pastoral work, he continued his studies at the Theological faculty of the

with the

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in the

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in 1994 and the

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degree in 2002.

Prelate

On May 24, 2006, he was appointed by

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as the a Titular Bishop of Musti in Numidia and Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Maribor. On September 10, 2006, he was consecrated as bishop by Metropolitan Archbishop Franc Kramberger and other prelates of the

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in the Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist in

. On November 28, 2009 Bishop Štumpf was transferred to the vacant Diocese of Murska Sobota and installed as its second bishop on January 10, 2010.

References

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