Birth name Marin Barišić Predecessor Ante Jurić Consecration 3 August 1993 | Installed 26 August 2000 Nationality Croatian Ordination 14 July 1974 Appointed 21 June 2000 | |
Born 24 March 1947 (age 69)Vidonje, SFR Yugoslavia (now Croatia) ( 1947-03-24 ) Diocese Cathedral of Saint Domnius | ||
Mons marin bari i upa svetog ilije metkovi pastirski pohod 2016
Marin Barišić (born Vidonje, near Metković, 24 March 1947) is a Croatian archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Split-Makarska.
Contents
- Mons marin bari i upa svetog ilije metkovi pastirski pohod 2016
- Papa franjo u sarajevu mons marin bari i
- Early life and education
- Career
- References
Papa franjo u sarajevu mons marin bari i
Early life and education
Marin Barišić was born in Vidonje near Metković on 24 March 1947 to Ivan and Matija Barišć. He finished primary school in Vidonje, after which he attended high school in Dubrovnik, and finished it in minor seminary in Split. Barišić started his high education at Split High School of Theology, and finished it at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome. After graduation he continued his specialization at the Pontifical Biblical Institute of the Pontifical Gregorian University from which he received his doctorate in biblical theology. He was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Split-Makarska on 14 July 1974 by auxiliary Bishop Ivo Gugić.
Career
After Barišić returned from Rome, he served as a prefect at the Split Theological Seminary (1978-1979), and pastor of parish of Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Špinut, Split (1979-1993). Since 1981 he was a teacher at the High school of theology in Split, where he taught scriptural subjects. On 3 August 1993, Pope John Paul II appointed him Auxiliary bishop of Split-Makarska. He was ordained on 17 October 1993 by Archbishop Ante Jurić, with co-consecrators being Giulio Einaudi and Giuseppe Mani.
In 1998, Barišić become head of Split Committee for the preparation of pastoral visit of Pope John Paul II to Split and Solin. At the Croatian Bishops' Conference, he served as president of the Council for the Doctrine of the Faith, member of the Committee for the Great Jubilee of the year 2000, and the service of the delegates of the Bishops' Conference to the Bishops' Conference of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
On 21 June 2000, Pope John Paul II appointed Barišić Archbishop of Split-Makarska, after he accepted the resignation of then 78-year-old Msgr. Ante Jurić who served as arcbishop for 12 years. Barišić took office on 26 August at a ceremony in the Co-Cathedral of St Peter in Split.