Alojzije Mišić

Aloysius Mišić (initial Stjepan Mišić, Italian Luigi Stefano Misic; born November 10, 1859 in Bosanska Gradiška, Bosnia - Herzegovina, † March 26, 1942 in Mostar ) was a bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mostar Ratko Peric and Apostolic Administrator of Trebinje - Mrkan.

Life

Stjepan Mišić was born in Bosanska Gradiška. The four-year school education, he graduated from 1866 until 1870. On June 18, 1870 Mišić entered the Franciscan Order, in the village of Ivanjska northwest of Banja Luka area, a. He remained there from 1870 to 1874. He spent his novitiate in Fojnica, ibid Mišić put his religious vows in 1874 in the Franciscan Order of the Friars Minor and took the religious name Aloysius. Aloysius Mišić studied from 1876 to 1878, the subject of philosophy in Guca Gora, then to 1882 in the Archdiocese of Esztergom theology. Ibid Mišić received the Roman Catholic priesthood on July 7, 1882. His first Mass he celebrated on August 15, 1882.

In 1884 he became secretary of the Apostolic Administrator and Bishop of Banja Luka Marijan Markovic. As a chaplain he had been active in pastoral Banja Luka and Sarajevo as a catechist. 1891 Mišić Guardian was also parish priest until 1894 Petrićevac district in Banja Luka. In 1894 he was parish priest in Bihać. In 1903, he returned as parish priest back to Petrićevac and was Guardian in 1907 curator and head of the Franciscan high school in Visoko.

In 1909, Aloysius Mišić Provincial of the Franciscan Province of Bosna Srebrena. The appointment as Bishop of the Diocese of Mostar Ratko Peric ( - Trebinje - Mrkan ) took place on 5 March of the year 1912. During the same year Aloysius Mišić was ordained by the donations of the sacrament in Rome on 18 June for the bishop. Overall, Aloysius Mišić For 58 years, a Roman Catholic priest, of which 29 years working as a pastoral bishop of Mostar Ratko Peric ( - Trebinje - Mrkan ).

Bishop Aloysius Mišić died on March 26, 1942 aged 82 years in Mostar. His resting place is located on the cemetery of Petrićevac in Banja Luka.

Controversial

Its social role in the life of the so-called " Independent State of Croatia" has been variously assessed in the literature. On the one hand Aloysius Mišić to have been an opponent of the Ustasha state in the interwar period. Accordingly, against a circular dated May 9, 1941 will receive has remained, by endorsing the proclamation of the Fascist regime and the leader of the Croatian fascists in the " Independent State of Croatia", Ante Pavelić, as " exemplary Catholics " means.