Milan Stipić

Fr. Stipić was born in Bosanski Novi, in the present-day Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina to Croatian Roman Catholic parents. He spent his childhood in Lipik, where he was baptized. He attended elementary school in Lipik, but due to the war, continued in Zagreb and Čazma. After elementary school in 1993, he enrolled in the Archdiocesan Classical High School in Zagreb and began his priestly formation at the Inter-Diocesan Minor Seminary.[1]

In 1997 he entered the Greek Catholic Theological Seminary of the Eparchy of Križevci and studied at the Catholic Theological Faculty in University of Zagreb. He was ordained deacon on 8 November 2002 and priest on 18 October 2003, for the Greek Catholic Eparchy of Križevci.[2] In the same year, he started serving pastoral work in the local Greek Catholic parishes.

In 2007 he received the title of proto-priest and took over the pastoral care of Greek Catholics in Dalmatia. Fr. Stipić served as a parish priest of Jastrebarsko from 2012 until 2019.[1]

On18 March 2019, he was appointed by Pope Francis as an Apostolic Administrator of the then-vacant Greek Catholic Eparchy of Križevci without dignity of bishop.[2] On 8 September 2020 was promoted to a rank of bishop, as Eparchial Bishop of Greek Catholic Eparchy of Križevci.[2][3]