Franjo Kuharić: Difference between revisions

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'''Franjo Kuharić''' (15 April 1919 – 11 March 2002) was a [[Croats|Croatian]] [[Catholic Church in Croatia|Croatian Catholic]] [[Cardinal (Catholic Church)|cardinal]],prelate who served as the [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Zagreb|Archbishop of Zagreb]] from 1970 until his resignation in 1997.<ref name=ZN>{{cite web|title=Cardinal Kuharić, "Rock of Croatia", Dies|date=11 March 2002|publisher=Zenit|access-date=21 December 2017|url=https://zenit.org/articles/cardinal-kuharic-rock-of-croatia-dies/}}</ref><ref name=SEB>{{cite web|url=http://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/88199|title=Card. Franjo Kuharić|publisher=Santi e Beati|access-date=21 December 2017}}</ref><ref name=CD>{{cite web|url=http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1983.htm|title=Consistory of February 2, 1983 (II)|author=Salvador Miranda|publisher=The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church|access-date=21 December 2017|archive-date=6 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170406044516/http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1983.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> TheMade a [[Cardinal (Catholic Church)|cardinal]] wasin often1983, referredhe towas known as the "Rock of Croatia"<ref name=ZN>{{cite web|title=Cardinal Kuharić, "Rock of Croatia", Dies|date=11 March 2002|publisher=Zenit|access-date=21 December 2017|url=https://zenit.org/articles/cardinal-kuharic-rock-of-croatia-dies/}}</ref> knownbecause forof his defense of human rights and his urgings of peace and forgiveness during the [[Croatian War of Independence|independence conflict]] and the [[Bosnian War]].<ref name=NY>{{cite web|title=Franjo Kuharić, 83, Croatian Cardinal|date=14 March 2002|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=21 December 2017|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/14/world/franjo-kuharic-83-croatian-cardinal}}</ref><ref name=SEB>{{cite web|url=http://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/88199|title=Card. Franjo Kuharić|publisher=Santi e Beati|access-date=21 December 2017}}</ref>

Kuharić was also a vocal supporter of the cause for the canonization of Cardinal [[Aloysius Stepinac|Alojzije Stepinac]] (who had [[ordained]] him as a [[priest]] in 1945<ref name=CD/>). andHe worked to rehabilitate the image of the cardinal during his [[episcopate]], whileeventually workingleading towardsto Stepinac's 1998 beatification held in [[Zagreb]].<ref name=ZN/><ref name=SEB/>

HisKuharić's own cause for canonization commenced on 11 March 2012 and he has been titled as a [[Servant of God]].<ref name=CD/><ref name=SEB/>

In 19641934, thehe prelatebegan becamehis theological and philosophical education at the Titulararchdiocesan Bishopclassical lyceum in [[Zagreb]], and continued at [[University of MetaZagreb|the college]].<ref name=vpo/> His education was completed in addition1945. He received his solemn [[ordination]] to becomingthe priesthood in mid-1945 in the [[Zagreb Cathedral]] from [[Alojzije Cardinal Stepinac|Alojzije Stepinac]] and began his pastoral work in Zagreb from 1945 until 1964.<ref name=CD/> His first pastoral assignment after his ordination was to serve as a chaplain in small villages surrounding Zagreb before Stepinac sent him as a pastor to the Radoboj village.<ref name=SEB/>

In 1964 Kuharić became one of the archdiocese's auxiliariesauxiliary bishops and was named Titular Bishop of Meta. He received his [[episcopal consecration]] as a bishop in mid-1964 from [[Franjo Šeper]] in the archdiocesan cathedral.<ref name=CDvpo/> In 1964 and in 1965 he attended -– as a bishop -– the last two sessions of the [[Second Vatican Council]] as a Council Father. In 1969 he was made the apostolic administrator for the archdiocese after Cardinal Šeper was summoned to [[Rome]] to assume a new position which put Kuharić in charge of the archdiocese as its interim head. The decisive moment in his episcopate came in 1970 -– ending the interim administration -– after [[Pope Paul VI]] named Kuharić as the newest [[Archbishop of Zagreb]].<ref name=CD/> It was following his appointment that his [[alma mater]] awarded him a doctorate in 1970.<ref name=SEB/> Kuharić also served as the [[Episcopal Conference of Yugoslavia|President of the Yugoslavian Episcopal Conference]] from 1970 until 1993 when the conference was abolished in light of the creation of [[Croatian Bishops' Conference|a Croatian conference]]; he led that from its inception until 1997. The next decisive moment came in 1983 after [[Pope John Paul II]] elevated him into the [[cardinalate]] as the [[Saint Jerome of the Croats|Cardinal-Priest of San Girolamo dei Croati]]. He retired from his see after over two decades of service in mid-1997 and soon after lost the right to participate in a future papal conclave after he turned 80 in 1999.<ref name=CD/>

Kuharić had been ill for some time before he died at 4:20am on 11 March 2002 in Zagreb in the archdiocesan palace due to [[cardiac arrest]] (according to the [[Apostolic Nuncio to Croatia|apostolic nuncio]] [[Giulio Einaudi (prelate)|Giulio Einaudi]]);<ref name=ZN/> his funeral was celebrated on 14 March and remains were interred in the metropolitan cathedral and rests close to the tombs of his two immediate predecessors.<ref name=SEB/> John Paul II -– in a telegram of condolence -– said that "he gave consistent witness of Christ" through his actions and set about "infusing confidence and courage in the faithful" during times of struggle.<ref name=ZN/> President [[Stjepan Mesić]] -– in a letter to the Zagreb archdiocese -– said that "he preached peace" as a central message of his episcopal life.

Kuharić's successor -– [[Josip Bozanić]] -– announced that the cause for his predecessor's beatification would be opened in the archdiocese; this process opened a decade following the cardinal's death on 11 March 2012.

[[Category:Croatian Servants of God]]