ZAGREB, July 17 (Hina) - The Bishop of the Evangelical Church in Croatia, Vlado Ladislav Deutsch, died in Zagreb on July 15. Deutsch was born in 1929 in Legrad. He completed his secondary education in Murska Sobota and studied at the
Faculty of Theology in Goettingen, Germany. He graduated from Vienna's Faculty of Theology. He earned his PhD degree at the Faculty of Theology in Bratislava. He first served as a priest in Slovenia and in 1960 became a parish priest with the Evangelical Church in Zagreb. He was elected senior of the Evangelical Church in Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Vojvodina and later Bishop of the Evangelical Church in Croatia. Deutsch was one of the founders of Zagreb's "Matija Vlacic Ilirik" Faculty of Theology, where he worked as a dean and professor of dogmatics and church history. He was a guest-lecturer at many universities, including Sorbonne, Upsalla, Mannheim, and Ljubljana. D
ZAGREB, July 17 (Hina) - The Bishop of the Evangelical Church in
Croatia, Vlado Ladislav Deutsch, died in Zagreb on July 15.
Deutsch was born in 1929 in Legrad. He completed his secondary
education in Murska Sobota and studied at the Faculty of Theology in
Goettingen, Germany. He graduated from Vienna's Faculty of
Theology. He earned his PhD degree at the Faculty of Theology in
Bratislava.
He first served as a priest in Slovenia and in 1960 became a parish
priest with the Evangelical Church in Zagreb.
He was elected senior of the Evangelical Church in Croatia, Bosnia-
Herzegovina and Vojvodina and later Bishop of the Evangelical
Church in Croatia.
Deutsch was one of the founders of Zagreb's "Matija Vlacic Ilirik"
Faculty of Theology, where he worked as a dean and professor of
dogmatics and church history.
He was a guest-lecturer at many universities, including Sorbonne,
Upsalla, Mannheim, and Ljubljana.
Deutsch was one of the initiators of ecumenism in Croatia, and a
renown humanitarian worker.
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