Pavao Zorčić,

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(c.1620 – 23 January 1685) was a Croatian Greek Catholic hierarch. He was the titular bishop of

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and Vicar Apostolic of Marča from 1671 to 1685.

Life

He was born in

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, Habsburg's Kingdom of Croatia (present-day

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) around 1620. As a young person he joined a monastery in

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and was an author of an apology about unity with the

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. He was appointed as the Bishop by the

on 20 November 1671, and

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to the

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on January 1672. The principal

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was Archbishop Onofrio Costantini. Bishop Pavao Zorčić was a fiery apologetic against the attacks of the

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against the Greek Catholic Union of Marča. In this sense he erected the Greek Catholic Seminary in Zagreb (1680), which started its work in the academic year 1681. It is the oldest Greek Catholic seminary (maius) in Europe outside Rome. He died in Marča (present-day Stara Marča in

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, Croatia) on 23 January 1685.

References

1620 births 1685 deaths 17th-century Eastern Catholic bishops Croatian Eastern Catholics Greek Catholic Church of Croatia and Serbia Order of Saint Basil the Great {{EasternCatholic-bishop-stub