Franjo Cardinal Šeper
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His Eminence Franjo Šeper |
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| Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith | |
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| Church | Roman Catholic |
| Archdiocese | Zagreb |
| Appointed | 8 January 1968 |
| Term ended | 25 November 1981 |
| Predecessor | Alfredo Ottaviani |
| Successor | Joseph Ratzinger |
| Other posts | Cardinal-Priest of SS Pietro e Paolo a Via Ostiense |
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| Ordination | 26 October 1930 by Giuseppe Palica |
| Consecration | 21 September 1954 by Josip Antun Ujcic |
| Created Cardinal | 22 February 1965 |
| Rank | Cardinal-Priest |
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2 October 1905 Osijek |
| Died | 30 December 1981 (aged 76) |
| Nationality | Croatian |
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| Spoken style | Your Eminence |
| Informal style | Cardinal |
Franjo Šeper (2 October 1905, Osijek – 30 December 1981, Rome) was a Croatian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith from 1968-81, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1965.
Born in Osijek, in the Austro-Hungarian Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia (present-day Croatia), he and his family moved to Zagreb in 1910; his father was a tailor and his mother a seamstress. Studying in Zagreb and Rome (including the Pontifical Gregorian University), Šeper was ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Giuseppe Palica on 26 October 1930. He did pastoral work in the Archdiocese of Zagreb and, in 1934, was appointed private secretary to the Archbishop. In 1941 Father Šeper became the rector of the archdiocesan seminary, a post which he held for the next decade. On 22 July 1954 he was named Coadjutor Archbishop of Zagreb and Titular Archbishop of Philippopolis; he received his episcopal consecration on the following 21 September from Archbishop Josip Ujčić of Belgrade.
He succeeded Cardinal Aloysius Stepinac as Archbishop of Zagreb on 5 March 1960, and was created Cardinal-Priest of Ss. Pietro e Paolo a Via Ostiense by Pope Paul VI in the consistory of 22 February 1965. He resigned as Archbishop of Zagreb on 20 August 1969. He had advocated religious liberty and the introduction of the vernacular into the liturgy during the Second Vatican Council. In one speech to the Council he said: "We must admit that Christians who defended the established order and the unchangeableness of social structures too stubbornly, wrongly appealing to God's authority, are partly responsible for modern atheism."
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