Preliminary communication
Josip Juraj Strossmayer a Shepherd of Souls in His Diocese
Andrija Šuljak
; Katolički bogoslovni fakultet u Đakovu Sveučilišta Josip Juraj Strossmayer u Osijeku, Đakovo, Hrvatska
Abstract
In this paper I would like to give a survey of the Strossmayer pastoral acitivity in the first years of his service as bishop i.e. in the time that preceded and immediately followed his political activity as the great district prefect. It was his magnificent speech in public in 1850 during the Chancery take-over, in 1851 his appointment to an apostolic administrator of the Catholic Church in Serbia, the acceptance of his joining the Croatian church province led by the Zagreb archdiocese, the first efforts on a pastoral field in the diocese, bringing the first nuns in the diocese, educational and study reform in the seminary. The opening of the St. Bonaventure convent school for education of young Bosnian Franciscans in 1854 and his first canon visit ad limina to the Pope Pio IX in 1859 and the beginning of such achievement to rescue the Croatian national chapter in Rome and finally as an important part of his pastoral activity, his engagement for the unity of Christians.
Keywords
pastoral service; a new image of priest; church unity; of Saints Cyril and Methodius legacy; Maria’s spirituality
Hrčak ID:
21579
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Publication date:
27.12.2007.
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