Diocese of Mostar-Duvno

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Diocese of Mostar-Duvno
Map of the Diocese of Mostar-Duvno
Basic data
Country Bosnia and Herzegovina
Ecclesiastical province Vrhbosna
Metropolitan bishopric Archdiocese of Vrhbosna
Diocesan bishop Petar Palić (appointed)
Emeritus diocesan bishop Ratko Peric
founding 1881
surface 11,306 km²
Parishes 82 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Residents 454.505 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Catholics 197,656 (2016 / AP 2017 )
proportion of 43.5%
Diocesan priest 73 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Religious priest 115 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Catholics per priest 1,051
Friars 162 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Religious sisters 194 (2016 / AP 2017 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language Croatian
cathedral Katedrala Marija Majka Crkve
address Biskupski Ordinarijat
Nadbiskupa Čule BB, PP. 54
88000 Mostar
Bosna i Hercegovina
Website md-tm.ba
Mostar Cathedral
The Franciscan Monastery in Mostar.

The Diocese of Mostar-Duvno ( Croatian and Bosnian Mostarsko-duvanjska biskupija , Latin Dioecesis Mandetriensis-Dumnensis o Dalminiensis (-Tribuniensis et Marcanensis) ) with its seat in Mostar is part of the Catholic Church in Bosnia-Herzegovina and a Suffragan of the Archbishopric . The diocese of Trebinje-Mrkan , which was united with the diocese of Mostar-Duvno in 1890 , is also administered by the respective bishop .

history

Foundation of the Mostar-Duvno (Trebinje-Mrkan) diocese

The bull Ex hac august , which Pope Leo XIII. issued, paved the way for the formation of a new church organization in what is now Bosnia-Herzegovina . Especially after the end of Ottoman rule. Thus the diocese of Mostar-Duvno was founded with seat in Mostar. The first bishop of the newly founded diocese was Paškal Buconjić. Until then he was Vicar Apostolic of the Herzegovina Vicariate .

In addition to the existing parishes of the two former, mutually independent Apostolic Vicariates of Bosnia and Herzegovina , 27 parishes were added to the newly founded diocese :

Mostar, Široki Brijeg , Ljuti Dolac , ceria , Gradmići , Gabela , Humac , Veljaci , Klobuk , Rasno , Ružići , Drinovci , Gorica , Posušje , Vir , Raško Polje , Grabovica , Bukovica , Zupanjac , Šuica , Seonica , Rakitno , Kocerin , Gradac , Goranci , Drežnica and Konjic were added.

Development of the diocese

After the Ottoman rule there were enormous difficulties to be overcome: numerous churches and monasteries were dilapidated or destroyed. There was a shortage of priests and young priests as well as schools and, above all, money. Bishop Buconjić was faced with the task of finding employees to ensure the development and progress of the diocese. In addition, the bishop was entrusted with the apostolic administration of the diocese of Trebinje-Mrkan. This took place on July 8, 1890.

In 1902 the diocese had 40 parishes, a monastery and two schools. There were around 100,000 believers and 70 priests. By 1926 the number had increased, to be precise: 46 parishes, three monasteries and six schools. Pastoral care was provided by 141 priests. The development of the diocese for the year 1931 looked according to the figures of the schematic from 1939, which mainly relates to the year 1931, but contains the figures from July 1, 1937, for the diocese as follows: Including the diocese Trebinje-Mrkan had it covers an area of ​​12,229 km². It included 8 deaneries with 52 parishes, 50 churches, 296 chapels, 3 male and 15 female monasteries, and 13 sister houses. The number of believers amounted to 157,962, mostly Croatians , with 149 priests and 131 religious.

During World War II and in the post-war period, more than 16,000 Roman Catholic believers were persecuted, imprisoned or killed, including priests and seminarians.

The new communist regime also exerted terror over the other bishoprics (not just the Catholic ones). Data on the murder of 14 diocesan priests and 66 Franciscan fathers are historically secured in the diocese of Mostar-Duvno. Among the Franciscans killed were twenty high school teachers and nine doctors.

The diocese has been in dispute with the local Franciscan province since 1975 over jurisdiction over several parishes in Herzegovina . Pope Paul VI had urged the Herzegovinian Franciscans to obey the diocese that year. Its conflicts with the order have intensified since 1981 because the diocese has since refused to recognize the alleged Marian apparitions in the parish of Međugorje, which the order supervises, and to make them a place of pilgrimage .

The renaming from Duvno to Tomislavgrad in 1990 did not affect the name of the diocese .

With the attacks on the Roman Catholic village Ravno (near the Croatian border, approx. 30 km northwest of Dubrovnik ) in the diocese of Trebinje-Mrkan in the autumn of 1991, a period of suffering in the diocese of Mostar-Duvno (Trebinje-Mrkan ). On May 6 and 7, 1992, the Bishop's Palace in Mostar was hit by several grenades. The modern cathedral built in 1980 was badly damaged.

In 1995 the Diocese of Mostar-Duvno and the Diocese of Trebinje-Mrkan announced the following statistics:

  • Mostar had 66 parishes, Trebinje 15, a total of 81 parishes
  • Deaneries in Mostar 9, in Trebinje 2, total: 11
  • Parish priests:
    • 116 in Mostar, 16 in Trebinje, total: 132
    • outside the parishes:
      • 79 in Mostar and 8 in Trebinje, total: 172
      • The number of Catholics was:
      • in Mostar 175,552, in Trebinje 17,174, a total of 192,726 believers.

Famous pilgrimage or pilgrimage sites in the Mostar-Duvno diocese

See also

literature

  • The Crucified Church in Bosnia-Herzegovina, The Destruction of Catholic Sacred Buildings in Bosnia-Herzegovina, published by the Bishops' Conference of Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Croatian Information Center, 1997, ISBN 953-6058-22-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Davies: Truth both frees us and binds us ( Memento of October 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), May 2004 (with the opinion of the local bishop)