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A “Rogue” Priest or “Uncaring” Bishop? – The Complaints of Priest Karlo Josip Fučko against Bishop Strossmayer in 1869
Ana Biočić
orcid.org/0000-0002-2894-4279
; Katolički bogoslovni fakultet, Zagreb
Sažetak
On the basis of archival sources of the Croatian State Archive, the State Archive of Zagreb and the Archdiocesan Archive in Zagreb, this article investigates the complaint against Bishop Josip Juraj Strossmayer for neglect and a dishonest attitude towards the chaplains of his diocese of Đakovo. The complaint was addressed to spiritual authorities (the Metropolitan Spiritual Court in Zagreb and the vicar of the Archdiocese of Zagreb archbishopric) and civil authorities (the Ministry of Religion and Education of the Croatian Government in Zagreb), by the chaplain of the Diocese of Đakovo, Josip Karlo Fučko. Taking into account the fact that this affair is not mentioned in historiography at all, the aim of this article is to establish whether these accusations were true, and what the outcome of the process and the consequences for the plaintiff and defendant were. They are discussed in their wider historical and political context. In the first part of the article, biographical data on the plaintiff, Fučko, later connected to the complaint itself, are given. Specifically, Fučko was notorious for his whining and inappropriate conduct. The course of the events following the complaint is then reconstructed, as well as the consequences for both the plaintiff and the defendant. Fučko was degraded to the status of a layman, while there were no consequences for Bishop Strossmayer. It turned out that the complaint had a political background, because Fučko was in league with the ruling Unionists and wanted to blacken the name of Bishop Strossmayer in public. In the article, attention is also paid to contemporary ecclesiastical laws, in order to establish whether Bishop Strossmayer really had observed them or had broken them. At the end, Fučko’s life after the complaint is also briefly presented.
Ključne riječi
Bishop Josip Juraj Strossmayer; Josip Fučko; complaint; spiritual authorities; civil authorities; canon law; the second half of the nineteenth century; ecclesiastical history
Hrčak ID:
168306
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Datum izdavanja:
31.12.2015.
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