Stanislav Zore

His Excellency

Stanislav (Stane) Zore

OFM
Archbishop of Ljubljana
ChurchRoman Catholic Church
ArchdioceseLjubljana
Appointed4 October 2014
Installed23 November 2014
PredecessorAnton Stres
Orders
Ordination29 June 1985
Consecration23 November 2014
by Juliusz Janusz
Andrej Glavan
Stanislav Lipovšek
Personal details
Born (1958-09-07) 7 September 1958 (age 66)
Znojile, Upper Carniola, Socialist Republic of Slovenia
NationalitySlovene
DenominationRoman Catholic
ResidenceLjubljana
ProfessionTheologian
Alma materUniversity of Ljubljana

Stanislav (Stane) Zore, O.F.M. (born 7 September 1958), is a Slovenian prelate of the Catholic Church who has been the archbishop of Ljubljana since 2014.

Biography

Stane Zore was born on 7 September 1958 in Znojile, a village in Sela pri Kamniku in Upper Carniola in what was then the Socialist Republic of Slovenia, Yugoslavia.[1] His father was a miner in the chalk mine in Črna in Tuhinjska valley and his mother managed the family farm. Stane had three siblings.[2] He went to school there and in Kamnik and graduated from Serafin College in Kamnik in 1977. He then entered the Franciscan novitiate at Kostanjevica in Nova Gorica and took his first vows in 1978. He studied philosophy and theology at the Faculty of Theology in Ljubljana from 1977 to 1984 in two stages, interrupted beginning in 1980 by his military service in Koprivnica and Varaždin.[1] On 4 October 1984 he took solemn vows in the Order of Friars Minor. He was ordained a priest on 29 June 1985.[3]

He was parish vicar, parish priest, rector of the national sanctuary of Brezje and of Sveta Gora, guardian in various fraternities and master of novices. From 1998 to 2004 he was Provincial Minister of the Franciscan Province of Santa Croce in Slovenia. He served as Provincial Minister of his order again from 2011 to 2015, and in 2014 he was President of the Conference of Men and Women Religious in Slovenia (KORUS).[3]

Pope Francis named him archbishop of Ljubljana on 4 October 2014.[3] He received him episcopal consecration there on 23 November from Archbishop Juliusz Janusz, Apostolic Nuncio to Slovenia.[1] As the archbishop of Ljubljana he is also the Grand Chancellor of the Faculty of Theology of the University of Ljubljana.[citation needed] He was the 36th ordinary of Ljubljana, and the first Franciscan.[4]

From 2017 to 2022 he served a five-year term as head of the Slovenian Episcopal Conference.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Ljubljanski nadškof metropolit msgr. Stanislav Zore". Katoliska-cerkev.si (in Slovenian). Archived from the original on 11 April 2024.
  2. ^ "Kdo je Stane Zore" [Who is Stane Zore]. Delo (in Slovenian). 4 October 2014. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
  3. ^ a b c "Rinunce e Nomine, 04.10.2014" (Press release) (in Italian). Holy See Press Office. 4 October 2014. Retrieved 25 May 2024.
  4. ^ "'Prenehati se moramo bati drug drugega in si nasprotovati'" ['We must stop fearing each other and opposing each other']. RTVSLO (in Slovenian). 4 October 2014. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
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Catholic Church titles
Preceded by
Andrej Glavan
(as Apostolic Administrator)
 Archbishop of Ljubljana
2014– 		Incumbent
Preceded by President of the Slovenian Bishops' Conference
2017–2022 		Succeeded by