Berislav Grgić
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Monsignor Berislav Grgić |
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| Bishop of Tromsø | |
| Church | Catholic Church |
| Diocese | Roman Catholic Territorial Prelature of Tromsø |
| Appointed | 18 December 2008 |
| Predecessor | Gerhard Goebel |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 29 June 1986 by Franjo Komarica |
| Consecration | 28 March 2009 by Bernt Ivar Eidsvig |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
15 February 1960 Kotor Varoš, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia |
| Education | Pontifical Gregorian University |
| Motto | Astare coram te |
| Coat of arms |  |
Berislav Grgić (born 15 February 1960) is a Bosnian Croat bishop serving in Norway as the Roman Catholic Territorial Prelate of Tromsø, the northernmost Catholic bishopric in the world. Grgić fled Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Bosnian War, arriving in Norway as a refugee and eventually becoming one of the highest-ranking officials of the Catholic Church in Norway.
Grgić was born into a Bosnian Croat family in Novo Selo, Kotor Varoš in Bosnia and Herzegovina, then a constituent republic of Yugoslavia. He was ordained as a priest by Bishop Franjo Komarica in Banja Luka on 29 June 1986. Starting his career in his native Roman Catholic Diocese of Banja Luka, he served as chaplain in Stara Rijeka until 1987 and then as vicar in Glamoč from 1987 to 1988. From then until 1991, he attended the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.
When the Yugoslav Wars between Catholic Croats and Orthodox Serbs erupted in 1991, Grgić was teaching at a seminary in Zadar, Croatia. He worked for Banja Luka Caritas, with headquarters in Zagreb, Croatia, during the Bosnian War from 1992 until April 1995. Grgić became a war refugee in August 1995 when Bosnian Serb authorities which controlled Banja Luka drove him out along with his parishioners. He went to Croatia and from there to Norway in January 1996. The Croatian Bishops' Conference, with the approval of the Bishops' Conference of Bosnia and Herzegovina, immediately named him pastor for 1200 Croat refugees within the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. As such, Grgić taught catechism and celebrated mass in Serbo-Croatian. After learning Norwegian, he was entrusted with pastoral care of all immigrants in the diocese.
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