Tomislav Koljatic Maroevic

Tomislav Koljatic Maroevic ( Croatian : Koljatić-Maroević ) (born September 19, 1955 in Santiago de Chile , Chile ) is the Roman Catholic Bishop of Linares .

Life

Born as the son of Croatian immigrants in the Chilean capital Santiago de Chile , he was ordained a priest on August 14, 1987 . On 27 November 1997 it appointed Pope John Paul II. To auxiliary bishop in Concepción and simultaneously with the titular of Bencenna . He was ordained bishop on January 6, 1998 by the Pope. Co-consecrators were Giovanni Battista Cardinal Re and Jorge María Cardinal Mejía .

Cathedral "San Ambrosio" in Linares

On January 17th, 2003 he was appointed Bishop of Linares by John Paul II . On March 15 of the same year Tomislav Koljatic Maroevic was solemnly inducted into his episcopate in the Cathedral of San Ambrosio in Linares.

literature

• María Olivia Mönckeberg: Karadima. El señor de los infiernos. Debate, Random House Mondadori , Santiago de Chile 2011, ISBN 978-956-8410-54-4 , p. 439 f.
• Juan Andrés Guzmán, Gustavo Villarrubia, Mónica González: Los secretos del imperio de Karadima. The investigación definitiva sobre el escándalo que remeció a la iglesia chilena. Catalonia, UDP , Santiago de Chile 2017 (first edition 2011), ISBN 978-956-324-105-1 (especially final chapter, online see web links).

Web links

• Entry on Tomislav Koljatic Maroevic on catholic-hierarchy.org (English)
• Short biography on the website of the Chilean Bishops' Conference (Spanish)
• El rol de los obispos en el encubrimiento de los abusos en la parroquia de El Bosque. In: Ciper Chile , May 14, 2018 (Spanish)
  (online publication of the chapter "El fin del imperio" from Los secretos del imperio de Karadima , Santiago de Chile 2017)