Ivan Prenđa

Most Reverend Ivan Prendja ( born December 31, 1939 in Gornji Zemun, Yugoslavia, now Croatia; † January 25, 2010 in Zagreb) was Archbishop of Zadar.

Life

After graduating from high school in Zadar Archbishop Most Reverend Ivan Prendja studied theology in Zagreb, where he earned a licentiate in 1967 as a graduate theologian. His priests He was ordained on June 29, 1964 in Zadar. He was 1964-1968 worked as a chaplain in the municipalities of Skabrnja and Nadin as well Smilčić. From 1968 to 1970 he was spiritual director of the seminary " Zmajević " in Zadar, ibid from 1970 to the year 1992, rector of the archiepiscopal seminary of Zadar. In addition to these tasks was Most Reverend Ivan Prendja Jugendkatechet in the years 1970 to 1972, 1981 to 1990, correspondent of the Roman Catholic Church newspaper Koncila glass and also from 1990 head of the Department of vocations archbishop of the Archdiocese of Zadar.

On 29 March 1990, Pope John Paul II named Koadjutorerzbischof. The episcopal ordination donated on June 9, 1990, the Archbishop of Zagreb, Cardinal Franjo Kuharić; Co-consecrators were the apostolic nuncio in Croatia, Archbishop Gabriel Montalvo Higuera, and the Archbishop of Zadar, Marijan Oblak. 1996 he was appointed Archbishop of Zadar.

Most Reverend Ivan Prendja was president of the Council for the Croatian clergy in the Croatian Bishops' Conference.

He died unexpectedly after a celebration of Mass in Zagreb.