His Excellency Stanislav Hočevar S.D.B. |
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Archbishop of Belgrade | |
Archbishop of Belgrade Stanislav Hočevar
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Church | Catholic Church |
Archdiocese | Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Belgrade |
Appointed | 25 March 2000 |
Installed | 31 March 2001 |
Predecessor | Franc Perko |
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Ordination | 29 June 1973 |
Consecration | 24 May 2000 by Edmond Y. Farhat |
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Born |
Jelendol, Škocjan, PR Slovenia, FPR Yugoslavia |
12 November 1945
Nationality | Slovene |
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Stanislav Hočevar (Serbian Cyrillic: Станислав Хочевар; born 12 November 1945) is the Catholic archbishop of the Archdiocese of Belgrade in Serbia since 2001. He was also the president of the International Bishops' Conference of Saints Cyril and Methodius between 2001 and 2011.
Hočevar was born on 12 November 1945 in the village of Jelendol in PR Slovenia, then part of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. After the primary school graduation in 1960 in Škocjan, he joined the Salesians of Don Bosco. He studied gymnasium in Križevci and Rijeka. Hočevar served in the Yugoslav People's Army in 1966/67 in Skopje. After that, he was instructor at the catholic novitiate in Želimlje near Ljubljana. He studied theology at the Theological Faculty in Ljubljana. Hočevar was ordained a priest on 29 June 1973. He achieved a magister degree at the Theological Faculty in Ljubljana in 1979 with thesis on Personal sin in today's hamartiology.