Janko Šimrak (29 May 1883 – 9 August 1946) was a Croatian

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hierarch. He was Apostolic Administrator from 1941 to 1942 and bishop from 1942 to 1946 of the Eastern Catholic

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Life

Born in Šimraki, near

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(present day –

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) in 1883, he was

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on 23 August 1908 for the

. Fr. Šimrak was the spiritual director and then prefect of the Greek Catholic Seminary in Zagreb from 1908 to 1935. In 1941 he became Apostolic Administrator and was appointed by the

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an Eparchial Bishop on 9 May 1942. He was consecrated to the

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on 16 August 1942. The principal

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was Bishop Ivan Bucko, and the principal co-consecrator was Blessed Archbishop

Alojzije Stepinac Aloysius Viktor Cardinal Stepinac ( hr, Alojzije Viktor Stepinac, 8 May 1898 – 10 February 1960) was a senior-ranking Yugoslav Croat prelate of the Catholic Church. A cardinal, Stepinac served as Archbishop of Zagreb from 1937 until his dea ...

. He died in

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on 9 August 1946.

References

1883 births 1946 deaths People from Zagreb County 20th-century Eastern Catholic bishops Croatian Eastern Catholics Greek Catholic Church of Croatia and Serbia {{EasternCatholic-bishop-stub