Antony Sumich

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Antony Sumich
Birth nameAntony Sumich
Date of birth (1964-09-30) 30 September 1964 (age 59)
Place of birthAuckland, New Zealand
Rugby union career
Position(s) –
International career
Years Team Apps (Points)
Croatia
Coaching career
Years Team
Croatia

Antony Sumich

Catholic priest of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter
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Background and sport

Sumich was educated at St Peter's College, Auckland and he completed his training as a civil engineer in Auckland in the 1980s. In 1989 he relocated to Europe, intending to live in Croatia, but because of the war there, he went to Austria and worked there for eight winters as a ski instructor, and elsewhere in Europe while coaching rugby. After the war, he became the coach of the Croatian national rugby team .[1] He also played Cricket for Croatia, being a member of the Croatian National Cricket team in 2001.[2]

Developing his faith

When the war had finished and Sumich returned to Croatia he found a "flourishing faith". "They had broken free from communism and the church was free". "Everyone had rosaries in their pockets." Sumich found himself "practising as a Catholic for the first time in my life, as distinct from just going to Sunday Mass. He wanted to know more about the Faith, because I'd just forgotten everything". His mother sent him a

International Seminary of St. Peter in Wigratzbad-Opfenbach, Bavaria, but he did most of his studies in Denton, Nebraska at Our Lady of Guadalupe Seminary where he was ordained deacon in March 2008.[3][4]

Priesthood

Sumich offering the Tridentine Mass in Zagreb.

Sumich was ordained a priest on 29 November 2008, at St Michael's Church,

Orlu, Nigeria where he had also served following his ordination as a deacon.[1][5] In 2011, Sumich was the Rector of St. Gregory's Academy, an American Catholic boarding school located in Elmhurst, Pennsylvania. Sumich served as associate pastor for the Latin Mass community at St. Anthony's Parish in Calgary Alberta, Canada.[6] in 2016, he returned to New Zealand to serve the Latin Mass community in West Auckland (Titirangi and Te Atatū).[7]

Notes

  1. ^ a b Michael Otto, "Kiwi ordained for Latin Mass fraternity", NZ Catholic, 14–20 Dec 2008, p. 3.
  2. ^ "Croatian Cricket Board website". Archived from the original on 19 April 2017. Retrieved 29 June 2010.
  3. ^ "Kiwi ordained for St Peter fraternity", NZ Catholic, 6–19 Apr. 2008, p. 2.
  4. ^ (E) Croatian Antony Sumich Story, Crown Croatian World Network, Antony Sumich, 2005 (accessed 29 June 2010)
  5. ^ Global Catholic restoration, FSSP in Nigeria, 14 September 2009 (accessed 29 June 2010)
  6. ^ St Anthony's Parish, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, clergy list (Retrieved 12 August 2013)
  7. ^ Michael Otto, "Traditionalist order sees chance to come to NZ" NZ Catholic, 12 May 2016 (retrieved 29 January 2018)

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