Augustin Miletić

Fra Augustin Miletić (1763–1831) was a Bosnian Croat Franciscan and prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the apostolic vicar of Bosnia from 1813 to his death in 1831


Augustin Miletić

Apostolic Vicar of Bosnia
Titular Bishop of Daulis
Portrait of Augustin Miletić from 1803
ChurchCatholic Church
DioceseBosnia
Appointed1 March 1813
Term ended18 July 1831
PredecessorGrgo Ilijić
SuccessorRafael Barišić
Other postsCoadjutor Apostolic Vicar of Bosnia (180313)
Orders
Consecration12 June 1803
by Giuseppe Peruzzi
Personal details
Bornc. 1762
Fojnica, Bosnia, Ottoman Empire
Died18 July 1831(1831-07-18) (aged 68–69)
Livno, Bosnia, Ottoman Empire
BuriedRapovine, Livno, Bosnia and Herzegovina
NationalityCroat
DenominationCatholic

Biography

Fra Augustin Miletić was born 16 February 1763 in Fojnica in Eyalet of Bosnia. He entered the Franciscan order after ending the primary education in Fojnica. He finished high school in Graz and studied philosophy and theology in Italy. When he finished his studies he became a professor of philosophy and theology in Brescia and Padua. Later he became a bishop of Grgo Ilijić (1798–1813), and in the same year, he became also the Apostolic administration of the Apostolic Vicariate in Bosnia. After the bishop Grgo Ilijić's death, he was appointed bishop of the same Vicariate (1813–1831). Fra Augustin Miletić died in Livno 1831, during one of his many pastoral visits.

The chronicle Fra Mato Mitić wrote about Augustin Miletić in following way: "All I can say, while some prelate of this kind among Bosnians come, many centuries will pass away."[1]

References

  1. Stoljeća Bosne Srebrene - dokumentarni film (1988) - 2. dio [Centuries of Bosna Srebrena - the documentary (1988) - 2nd part] (in Croatian). Unknown. 1988. Retrieved 30 January 2012.
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