Vlado Košić

Vlado Kosić ( born May 20, 1959 in Varaždin, Croatia, former Yugoslavia) is the Bishop of Sisak.

Life

Kosić grew up in his hometown Družbinec, which belongs to the Roman Catholic parish Petrijanec on ​​. There he attended elementary school.

He graduated from the inter-diocesan middle school Šalata for candidates for the priesthood in the Archdiocese of Zagreb, where he took off in 1978 to finish his schooling. At the Faculty of the University of Zagreb Roman Catholic and graduated Kosić studied in 1985 in the field of theology. Master's degree in the field of dogma became Kosić 1989. It was a dissertation on June 23, 1997. Received his PhD in the fields of theology took place on 28 November 1997 at the Faculty of Zagreb.

For Roman Catholic priest was ordained in the Archdiocese of Vlado Kosić Zagreb on 30 June 1985 Franjo Kuharić. The duties of a parish vicar took Kosić in Karlovac and Zagreb. As a pastor Kosić was pastoral 1990-1995 worked in the parish of Hrastovica. He also witnessed the attack the Serb- Yugoslav forces against the striving for independence and Croatia had with his community fleeing the advancing Serb forces in September 1991. From 1992 to 1995 he served also as pastor of Petrinja and was in a wooden hut next to the checkpoint of the UN peacekeeping force on the front line in Mošćenica, a suburb of Petrinja housed. The memories of that time in which he maintained close contacts with the Catholic Church in Germany, he has written in his book " Zupnik na prvoj Crti " ( pastor at the front line) in 1999, which went through a second edition in 2010. Just after the liberation of Petrinja by the Croatian army on August 6, 1995, he was transferred to the Roman Catholic Faculty in Zagreb, where he taught the subject as a university assistant dogmatics.

Pope John Paul II named Vlado Kosić on 29 December 1998 as Auxiliary Bishop and Titular Bishop of Ruspae. The solemn consecration took place on 6 February 1999 in the Archdiocese of Zagreb Josip Bosanić. As a member of the Croatian Bishops' Conference Vlado Kosić takes over the tasks of the Interreligious dialogue with the Serbian Orthodox Church, also Kosić is a member of the Papal Commission on Croatian College of St. Jerome in Rome. In the Croatian Bishops' Conference is Vlado Kosić President of the Commission " Justitia et Pax " and President of the Council in matters of ecumenism with the Christian churches and inter-religious dialogue of religions.

On December 5, 2009 Pope Benedict XVI appointed him. the first bishop of Sisak. The inauguration took place on February 6, 2010.

Although it projects one of the smallest and poorest dioceses, Bishop Kosić has become known for his pastoral and social esp. social commitment beyond the limits of his diocese out. After the territory of his diocese during the Serbian- Yugoslav aggression in 1991 - was heavily devastated 95, "like after a tsunami states " what he describes, Bishop Kosić has driven the reconstruction not only of pastoral institutions, but also many cultural monuments.

As chairman of the Croatian Commission " Justitia et pax" he is one of the fiercest critics of both the former right-wing government Sanader / Kosor, as well as the current left -wing government Milanovic. Special attention has reached its use for a work-free Sunday, and more recently for the full implementation of the European arrest warrant issued against members of the former Stasi apparatus. After he incessantly before the restoration of communism warns in his sermons by the members of the former state apparatus and their descendants, he has become the target of violent attacks from pro-communist media.

Bishop Kosić has declared the promotion of needy students to one of its primary objectives. After his inauguration, he founded the Foundation "Fra Bonifacije Ivan Pavletić ", which now supports more than 50 students with scholarships.