Josip Srebrnič, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Josip Srebrnič

Catholic bishop

Date of Birth: 02-Feb-1876

Place of Birth: Solkan, Nova Gorica City Municipality, Slovenia

Date of Death: 21-Jun-1966

Profession: Catholic priest, Catholic bishop, philosopher

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Josip Srebrnič

  • Josip Srebrnic, also spelled Srebrnic, (2 February 1876 – 21 June 1966) was a Slovene Roman Catholic prelate who spent most of his career in Croatia. Born in a Slovene-speaking family in Solkan, Austria-Hungary (Solkan is now part of Nova Gorica, Slovenia), he was consecrated priest in 1906.
  • In 1923, he became Bishop of Krk in Croatia, then part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.
  • He served as bishop on the island of Krk for almost forty year, until 1961.
  • During this long period, he publicly defended the freedom of the Roman Catholic Church against different authorities.
  • He opposed the unificatory tendencies of the dictatorship of king Alexander I of Yugoslavia; in 1932, he published the booklet Crkvi slobodu! (Freedom to the Church!), in which he denounced the educational and cultural policies of Alexander's royal dictatorship.
  • Between 1941 and 1943, he voiced his opposition to the chauvinist anti-Croatian policies of the Italian Fascist forces, and organized humanitarian help for the prisoners in the Italian Rab concentration camp, which was established on the territory under his ecclesiastical jurisdiction.
  • He continued to publicly defend the personal and human rights of his flock during the Nazi German occupation regime (1943–1945).
  • In 1943 he refused to join the Partisans of the National Liberation Movement in Croatia or even to provide chaplains for Roman Catholic Partisans.
  • After 1945, he was critical of the Yugoslav Communist regime. Srebrnic died in Krk, and was buried in the Krk Cathedral.

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