GOSPIC-SENJ DIOCESE STARTS GOSPIC, July 25 (Hina) - A procession and mass marked the beginning of the ceremony of establishment of Gospic-Senj diocese and the inauguration of the first Gospic-Senj Bishop, Msgr. Mile Bogovic, in Gospic
on Tuesday. At the beginning of the ceremony, the head of Rijeka archdiocese, Msgr. Ivan Sporcic, read a papal bull on the establishment of Gospic-Senj diocese. Bishop Bogovic will be inaugurated by the president of the Croatian Bishops' Conference and Zagreb Archbishop, Msgr. Josip Bozanic. The celebration is attended by almost all Croatian archbishops and bishops, apostolic nuncio Giulio Einaudi and several hundred priests, as well as by state officials and several thousand pilgrims. Gospic-Senj diocese, the fifteenth diocese of the Church in Croatia, was declared on May 25 by Pope John Paul II in a bull dividing Rijeka-Senj archdiocese into Rijeka archdiocese and Gospic-Senj diocese.(hi
GOSPIC, July 25 (Hina) - A procession and mass marked the beginning
of the ceremony of establishment of Gospic-Senj diocese and the
inauguration of the first Gospic-Senj Bishop, Msgr. Mile Bogovic,
in Gospic on Tuesday.
At the beginning of the ceremony, the head of Rijeka archdiocese,
Msgr. Ivan Sporcic, read a papal bull on the establishment of
Gospic-Senj diocese.
Bishop Bogovic will be inaugurated by the president of the Croatian
Bishops' Conference and Zagreb Archbishop, Msgr. Josip Bozanic.
The celebration is attended by almost all Croatian archbishops and
bishops, apostolic nuncio Giulio Einaudi and several hundred
priests, as well as by state officials and several thousand
pilgrims.
Gospic-Senj diocese, the fifteenth diocese of the Church in
Croatia, was declared on May 25 by Pope John Paul II in a bull
dividing Rijeka-Senj archdiocese into Rijeka archdiocese and
Gospic-Senj diocese.
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