Bishop Anton Jamnik (born 27 July 1961) is a Slovenian

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prelate who serves as a Titular Bishop of Vina and Auxiliary Bishop of

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of the historical region of

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. After finishing primary school in

Grosuplje Grosuplje (; )''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 108. is a town in central Slovenia, in the northwest of the traditional region of Lower ...

in 1976, Anton graduated a Josip Jurčič Gymnasium in

Stična Stična (; in older sources also ''Zatičina'',''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, pp. 102–103. ) is a village in the Municipality of Iva ...

with the secondary education during 1976–1980 and also served his compulsory military service in the Yugoslav Army (1980–1981). After that, he joined to the Major Theological Seminary in

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and in the same time joined the Theological Faculty at the

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, where he studied six years (1981–1987) and was ordained as a

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on 29 June 1985 by archbishop

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for his native Archdiocese of Ljubljana.

Pastoral and educational work

After his ordination Fr. Jamnik was engaged in pastoral work and served as priest in

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parish from 1987 until 1990, and from 1990 to 1994 he was a personal assistant of the Archbishop of Ljubljana. During this time he continued his master's studies at the Department of Philosophy of the Faculty of Theology,

, and in 1993 he defended his master's thesis. In 1994 he was appointed an assistant at the Department of Philosophy of the Faculty of Theology. In the same year he moved to the Institute of St. Stanislav, where he taught religion and later philosophy at the Diocesan Classical Gymnasium. He continued his doctoral studies and completed his studies with a

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degree in 1997. Since 1997 he has been an assistant professor of philosophy at the Faculty of Theology, University of Ljubljana, and in 2012 he was elected and appointed associate professor of philosophy at the Faculty of Theology, University of Ljubljana.

Prelate

On 15 November 2005 he was appointed by

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as the Titular Bishop of Vina and Auxiliary Bishop of the

Archdiocese of Ljubljana The Metropolitan Archdiocese of Ljubljana (, ) is a Latin ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Slovenia.Alojz Uran Alojz Uran or Alojzij Uran (22 January 1945 – 11 April 2020) was a Slovenian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, who served as Archbishop of Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, from 4 December 2004 till 28 November 2009, when he resigned due ...

and other prelates of the

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in the Cathedral of St. Nicholas in

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