Original scientific paper
The Bishop of Krk, dr. Karmelo Zazinović and the Establishment of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Rijeka
Franjo Velčić
orcid.org/0000-0002-5088-4217
; Theology of Rijeka, Dislocated Studies of Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Zagreb, Rijeka, Croatia
Abstract
The bishop of Krk, dr. Karmelo Zazinović (1914-1997) as a future suffragan bishop, was directly involved, and vividly interested in the establishment of a new ecclesiastical region in the north-west of Croatia, i.e. the metropolitan archdiocese of Rijeka. Beside the direct work and decision taking during the meetings of the Episcopal Conference of Yugoslavia, he also presented to the Holy See (in the november of 1968) one, unknown up to this moment, pro-memoria by which he intensely advocates the establishment of a new region, the metropolitan archdiocese of Rijeka, supporting an urgent nomination of a resident bishop in this city, which was second to Zagreb in importance, beside being the most important seaport in the former state. This was demanded by the urgent pastoral reasons as well as by newly formed international circumstances after the 2nd world war. By that time Rijeka was already the church centre of the north-west Croatia, with its inter-diocesan theological school and the regional ecclesiastical court.
Keywords
Karmelo Zazinović; the metropolitan archdiocese of Rijeka; the pro-memoria of Zazinović
Hrčak ID:
123672
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Publication date:
18.1.2010.
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