His Excellency, The Most Reverend Ratko Perić |
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Bishop of Mostar-Duvno, Apostolic Administrator of Trebinje-Mrkan | |
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 |
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Ordination | 29 June 1969 by Petar Čule |
Consecration | 14 September 1992 by Franjo Kuharić |
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Tuk, Rovišće, Independent State of Croatia |
2 February 1944
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) |
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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 |
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Diaconal ordination
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Date of ordination | 13 April 1969 |
Place of ordination | Rome, Italy |
Priestly ordination
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Ordained by | Petar Čule |
Date of ordination | 29 June 1969 |
Place of ordination | Prisoje, Duvno, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia |
Episcopal consecration
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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.