Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.34075/sb.61.4.1

Political orientation and political activity of fr. Ante Cikojević (on the 150th anniversary of his birth)

Stipan Trogrlić ; Juraj Dobrila University in Pula, Pula, Croatia

Abstract

The paper presents the political ideas and political work of Fr. Ante Cikojević, a distinguished and well­known Franciscan of the Province of the Most Holy Redeemer, in the pre­war and interwar period, more precisely from 1910 to 1935. As a member of the Croatian Catholic Movement (Hrvatski katolički pokret ­ HKP), Cikojević joined the Party of Right in Dalmatia at the beginning of his political “activism”, following the political orientation of the Movement. This Party­of­Right phase was short­lived. As a member of the Croatian Catholic Seniorate, the leadership of the Movement, which consisted of graduates, he became an advocate of the Yugoslav idea as early as 1912, together with the Seniorate. After the war (1919), the seniors founded the Croatian People’s Party, whose basic orientation was “Catholic Yugoslavism”. Cikojević participated ardently and actively in the work of the Party. Even when the politics of “Catholic Yugoslavism” collapsed with the closure of the party in 1929, Cikojević remained a consistent follower of its politics.

Keywords

Ante Cikojević; politics; party of right; croatian people’s party; catholic yugoslavism

Hrčak ID:

273700

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/273700

Publication date:

21.12.2021.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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