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Ratko Perić

His Excellency, The Most Reverend
Ratko Perić
Bishop of Mostar-Duvno, Apostolic Administrator of Trebinje-Mrkan
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Diocese Mostar-Duvno
Trebinje-Mrkan
Appointed 24 July 1993
Predecessor Pavao Žanić
Other posts Rector of the Pontifical Croatian College of St. Jerome
Bishop Coadjutor of Mostar-Duvno
Orders
Ordination 29 June 1969
by Petar Čule
Consecration 14 September 1992
by Franjo Kuharić
Personal details
Born (1944-02-02) 2 February 1944 (age 73)
Tuk, Rovišće, Independent State of Croatia
Nationality Croat
Denomination Catholic
Residence Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Alma mater University of Zagreb
Pontifical Urban University
Motto Kroz nevolje u kraljevstvo Božje (Trhough tribulation into the kingdom of God)
Coat of arms Ratko Perić's coat of arms
Styles of
Ratko Perić
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Reference style His Excellency, The Most Reverend
Spoken style Your Excellence
Religious style Bishop
Ordination history of
Ratko
History
Diaconal ordination
Date of ordination 13 April 1969
Place of ordination Rome, Italy
Priestly ordination
Ordained by Petar Čule
Date of ordination 29 June 1969
Place of ordination Prisoje, Duvno, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia
Episcopal consecration
Principal consecrator Franjo Kuharić
Co-consecrators Josip Uhač
Pavao Žanić
Date of consecration 14 September 1992
Place of consecration Križevo, Neum, Herzeg-Bosnia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
History
Diaconal ordination
Date of ordination 13 April 1969
Place of ordination Rome, Italy
Priestly ordination
Ordained by Petar Čule
Date of ordination 29 June 1969
Place of ordination Prisoje, Duvno, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia
Episcopal consecration
Principal consecrator Franjo Kuharić
Co-consecrators Josip Uhač
Pavao Žanić
Date of consecration 14 September 1992
Place of consecration Križevo, Neum, Herzeg-Bosnia, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Ratko Perić (born 2 February 1944) is a Croat theologian and bishop prelate of the Catholic Church and the current bishop of Mostar-Duvno and apostolic administrator of Trebinje-Mrkan.

Ratko Perić was born in the village of Tuk, in the municipality of Rovišće, near Bjelovar in present-day Croatia, where his parents, Grgo and Anica née Raguž, moved from Rotimlja near Stolac. He was baptised on 5 February 1944 in the Church of the Most Holy Trinity in Rovišće. The family moved back to Rotimlja in 1946. There, Perić enrolled at the elementary school in 1951. He received his confirmation in Prenj, Stolac on 23 July 1953 by Andrija Majić, the bishop's delegate. Perić continued his education at the elementary school in Crnići near Čapljina from 1955 until 1959. He graduated from the Zagreb seminary high school. After finishing high school, Perić enrolled at the Faculty of Catholic Theology in Zagreb, where he studied philosophy from 1963 until 1965. After that, he enrolled at the Pontifical Urban University in Rome, Italy, where he studied theology from 1965 until 1969. He received licentiate in theology at the Pontifical Urban University in Rome with thesis "The Role of Cardinal Stepinac in Relations Between the Church and the State" in June 1969.


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