Ratko Perić

Mons. Ratko Perić (born February 2, 1944) is the current Bishop of Mostar-Duvno and Apostolic Administrator of Trebinje-Mrkan.

Ratko Perić was born in the village of Tuk in the Rovišće municipality, near Bjelovar in Croatia. After studies in Zagreb and Rome, he was ordained priest on 29 June 1969 in Prisoje. He received doctorate from the Pontifical Urbaniana University in 1971, and then taught at Catholic seminaries in Sarajevo, Zagreb, and for several years at the Gregoriana in Rome.

He was rector of the Pontifical Croatian college of St Jerome in Rome, 1980 - 1992.

Pope John Paul II named him coadjutor bishop of Mostar-Duvno on 29 May 1992. Since the Mostar Cathedral was heavily damaged in the ongoing war, Bishop Ratko's consecration took place in Neum, on 14 September 1992. He was consecrated by Franjo Cardinal Kuharić, Archbishop of Zagreb, assisted by Archbishop Josip Uhač, secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples and Pavao Žanić, bishop of Mostar-Duvno.

Following Bishop Žanić's retirement, Mons. Perić succeeded him as Bishop of Mostar-Duvno on 24 July 1993. He is "ex officio" permanent apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Trebinje-Mrkan.

ee also

*Međugorje
*Roman Catholicism in Bosnia and Herzegovina