Tomislav Jablanović

Tomislav Jablanović (born May 21, 1921 in Dolac , near Travnik , Kingdom of Yugoslavia , today Bosnia-Herzegovina , † September 10, 1986 in Germany ) was a Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop in Vrhbosna and titular bishop of Aquae in Dacia .

Life

Tomislav Jablanović was born in the small village of Dolac, near the central Bosnian town of Travnik . There he attended elementary school, under the direction of the Sisters of Mercy of St. Vincent von Paul , the grammar school in Travnik. The high school years in Travnik shaped him particularly. Many Bosniaks were among his school friends .

He completed his theology studies from 1939 to 1944 at the Episcopal Seminary in Sarajevo . The ordination to the Roman Catholic priest , at the age of 22, took place on 30 November 1943 in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vrhbosna . As a Roman Catholic priest, he first worked as a school catechist at a primary school in Sarajevo.

From June 13, 1945 to June 13, 1953, he served a prison sentence in Zenica in the communist regime of Yugoslavia . After his release from prison, he was deprived of all civil rights for another five years . Tomislav Jablanović then did his military service at the former JNA for one year, from 1959 to 1960 . His first Roman Catholic parish, which he looked after pastorally , was in the village of Bistrica near Bugojno .

He successfully continued his theological studies at the Archbishop's Faculty of Zagreb. He was appointed auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Vrhbosna and titular bishop of Aquae in Dacia on November 16, 1970. On December 12, 1970, he was appointed canon in Sarajevo by Archbishop Smiljan Franjo Čekada . The solemn episcopal ordination took place on April 18, 1971 at the age of almost 50 years.

In 1973 he became a member of the “Council for Families” of the former Yugoslav Bishops' Conference, and in 1976 he became president of the “Council for the Laity”. In 1983 he was elected president of the “Council of Croatian Migrants ” by the Croatian bishops . He reported on his pastoral visits abroad in the Roman Catholic national weekly newspaper Glas Koncila . As a representative of the Yugoslav Bishops 'Conference, he participated in meetings of the French Bishops' Conference, as well as in study meetings in the field of interreligious dialogue .

At the suggestion of the Yugoslav Bishops' Conference in 1968, Jablanović worked as head of the secretariat in the section for "Relations with Non-Christians". On April 26, 1985, he was appointed an official full member of this secretariat by Cardinal Secretary of State Agostino Casaroli . From 1978 to 1983 Bishop Jablanović was chairman of the Yugoslav Bishops' Conference, and since 1971 has been a lecturer in Roman Catholic theology and Islam at the Archbishop's Faculty in Sarajevo. Before that, since 1967, lecturer in the history of religion at the Archbishop's Faculty in Zagreb , especially in his field of Islam.

During a pastoral visit to the Croatian diaspora in Germany, Bishop Tomislav Jablanović died on September 10, 1986, at the age of 65. His resting place is next to the grave of his brother Branimir Jablanovic in the Mirogoj cemetery in Zagreb.

Web links

• Biography (Croatian)
• Entry on Tomislav Jablanović on catholic-hierarchy.org