Franjo Komarica
Komarica ( born February 3, 1946 in Novakovići, SR Bosnia - Herzegovina, Yugoslavia ) is a bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Banja Luka.
Life
The Croatian Komarica studied theology in Innsbruck and church music; 1978 doctorate coma Rica in the art of liturgy sciences. His ordination took place on 29 June 1972 at the Diocese of Banja Luka. For auxiliary bishop in Banja Luka Dr. Komarica was appointed on 28 October 1985 at the same time he was appointed Titular Bishop of Satafis. Through the donation of the sacrament by Karol Józef Wojtyla Komarica was on 6 January 1986 in the Diocese of Banja Luka officially Titular Bishop of Satafis. It thus belongs to the line of succession by Scipione Rebiba. His pastoral ministry as Titular Bishop knew Komarica until 15 May 1989. Since May 15, 1989 Komarica is Bishop of Banja Luka. As a representative of the Roman Catholic Church in the former Yugoslavia, he has long been the youngest member of the Bishops' Conference in Rome. Since 2010 he has been president of the Bosnian Herzegowinschen Bishops' Conference - an office he übter before that time ( 2002-2005) from ..
Bishop Komarica received the Heinrich Pesch Prize which was awarded to him by the Association of Scientific Catholic student associations Unitas in 1997. The award of the prize his tireless commitment to human rights of all ethnic, political and religious boundaries should be appreciated time. With the handover of Hans Pesch price expressed the Chairman Professor Lothar Roos: "You have given the immeasurable suffering that you personally have suffered the faithful entrusted to them, and many others living in the area of your diocese people through the recent military events, given the example of a truly good shepherd. You have publicly made known by her patience, your social- charitable activity compared with those in need without distinction of race and religion, and by their commitment to the dignity and rights of all people, what the social doctrine of the church. ". Bishop Komarica was appointed on December 6, 1998 Honorary Member of the Association of Scientific Catholic student associations Unitas (UV).
In addition, Bishop Komarica received in 2005 the Franz Werfel Human Rights Award. The jury wrote in its grounds that he is " turned into the horrors of ethnic cleansing in Bosnia - Herzegovina to a moral authority. He had been outbreak of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992, advocate for human dignity and human rights and international voice heard the disenfranchised. He sat down for Catholics, Muslims and Orthodox alike a ". Already in 2002 the award of Coudenhove- Kalergi Foundation awarded him.
On 8 October 2007, he celebrated together with the Bishop of Fulda Heinz Josef Algermissen the Pontifical Mass at the end of the Congress joy of faith (Forum German Catholics ) in Fulda Cathedral, where St. Boniface is buried to there for the homeland of the German praying Christians.
Publications
Published in 1997 Komarica the book " In defense of the disenfranchised. A selection of the documents of the Bishop and the Bishop Ordinary of Banja Luka from the war years 1991-1995 ", which was translated into several European languages.