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Zef Gashi ( Cyrillic: Зеф Гаши / ''Zef Gaši''; born 4 December 1938) is an ethnic
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of the
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in
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. He was the Archbishop of the
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bar The Archdiocese of Bar (; ; ) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in Montenegro.
between 1998 and 2016. Zef Gashi was born on December 14, 1938 in
Pristina Pristina or Prishtina ( , ), . is the capital and largest city of Kosovo. It is the administrative center of the eponymous municipality and District of Pristina, district. In antiquity, the area of Pristina was part of the Dardanian Kingdo ...
,
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(modern
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). In 1964, he was ordained priest of the order of the
Salesians of Don Bosco The Salesians of Don Bosco (SDB), formally known as the Society of Saint Francis de Sales (), is a religious congregation of men in the Catholic Church, founded in 1859 by the Italian priest John Bosco to help poor and migrant youth during the ...
. In 1998, he became the archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bar. He was retired in 2016.


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Living people 20th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Montenegro 21st-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Montenegro 1938 births Salesians of Don Bosco Albanian Roman Catholic archbishops People from Pristina Archbishops of Antivari Serbian Roman Catholic archbishops {{RC-archbishop-stub