Ratko Peric

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Ratko Perić (born February 2, 1944 in Tuk near Bjelovar , Yugoslavia ) is a Croatian Roman Catholic clergyman and emeritus Bishop of Mostar-Duvno and Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Trebinje-Mrkan in Bosnia and Herzegovina .

Life

Ratko Peric received in the June 29, 1969 Prisoj the priesthood . Perić obtained his doctorate in theology in 1971 at the Pontifical Urban University in Rome . He was then, among other things, a professor at the Pontifical Gregorian University

Pope John Paul II appointed him coadjutor bishop of Mostar-Duvno on May 29, 1992 . The Archbishop of Zagreb , Cardinal Franjo Kuharić , donated him episcopal ordination on September 14th . Co- consecrators were Archbishop Josip Uhač and Pavao Žanić , Bishop of Mostar-Duvno.

With the age-related resignation of Pavao Žanićs on July 23, 1993, he succeeded him as Bishop of Mostar-Duvno. At the same time he became Apostolic Administrator of Trebinje-Mrkan.

Like his predecessor, he is a sharp critic of the supposed apparitions of Mary in the pilgrimage town of Meugorje and refused to recognize it as a shrine or pilgrimage site .

During the Bosnian War , he was held hostage in Mostar for ten hours on April 2, 1995 , until he was freed by the intervention of the Mayor of Mostar and the United Nations Protection Force . He was the victim of a robbery at his residence in Mostar the previous month .

Pope Francis accepted his age-related resignation as Bishop of Mostar-Duvno and Administrator of Trebinje-Mrkan on July 11, 2020.

Publications

  • Smisao evangelizacije u perspectivei anominog krščanstra , Rome 1976
  • Decree o ekumenizmu. Unitatis redintegratio , series: Komentari dokumenata Drugog Vatikanskog Sabora, Vol. 5, Zagreb 1987, Filozofsko-Teološki Inst. Družbe Isusove u Zagrebu
  • Chiesa Sistina , Collectanea croatico-hieronymiana de urbe, Rome 1989, Pontificium Collegium Croaticum Sancti Hieronymi
  • Homo - imago et amicus dei. Miscellanea in honorem Ioannis Golub , Rome 1991, Pontificium Collegium Croaticum Sancti Hieronymi
  • Crkva na Kamenu , Mostar 1995
  • Prijestolje Mudrosti , Mostar 1995

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Opinion of the Diocese of Mostar of October 24, 1997
  2. ↑ Michael Sells: Crosses of Blood ( Memento of July 8th, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), Sociology of Religion ( Memento of the original of May 8th, 1999 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Wake Forest University , Winston-Salem , Fall 2003 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sociologyofreligion.com
  3. ^ René Laurentin : Medjugorje Testament , Ave Maria Press, Toronto 1998, ISBN 0969738269
  4. ^ E. Michael Jones: The Ghosts of Surmanci , Unity Publishing 1998
  5. ↑ Donal Anthony Foley: Understanding Medjugorje ( Memento of the original from December 31, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Theotokos Books, Nottingham 2006, ISBN 0955074606 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.theotokos.org.uk
  6. ^ Rinuncia del Vescovo di Mostar-Duvno e ​​Amministratore Apostolico ad nutum Sanctae Sedis di Trebinje-Mrkan (Bosnia ed Erzegovina) e nomina del successore e nuovo Amministratore Apostolico. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office , July 11, 2020, accessed July 11, 2020 (Italian).
personal data
SURNAME Peric, Ratko
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Croatian clergyman and emeritus Roman Catholic Bishop of Mostar-Duvno
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Tuk at Bjelovar , Yugoslavia