Anzelmo Katić
Anzelmo Katić (born 23 September 1715 – 24 January 1792) was a Croatian Franciscan and prelate of the Catholic Church from Dubrovnik who served as the bishop of Trebinje-Mrkan.
Biography
Katić was born in
On 15 June 1760, the bishop of Trebinje-Mrkan Šiško Tudišić died in Dubrovnik. The Senate of Dubrovnik proposed Katić as Tudišićs successor. After the Senate's decision, Katić went to Rome for approval from the pope. After regular questioning, Pope Clement XIII appointed Katić the new bishop of Trebinje-Mrkan on 15 December 1760. Katić remained in Rome to be consecrated as a bishop, spending eight months there in total. He returned to Dubrovnik on 7 March 1761. Former general vicar of Trebinje-Mrkan Andrija Lazarević arrived in Dubrovnik on 19 March 1761 to ascertain the new bishop with the situation in the diocese and to hand him over the administration of the diocese. Katić prolonged Lazarević's mandate as a general vicar.[2]
At the time, the vast majority of the Diocese of Trebinje-Mrkan was within the
However, the local Ottoman administrator from
Aware of the disinterest of the Ragusan government, Katić tried to resolve the issue himself. He rented a house on the border of the Republic of Ragusa and the Ottoman Empire in Čepikuće from a certain Ivelja Ohmučević from Ston. Ohmučević occasionally lived in that house. There was another, a smaller house nearby, owned by a peasant, Đuro Lalić. The house had only one room. Seeing it as a solution for his residence, Katić rented the house and lived there until his death.[6]
Footnotes
- ^ Pandžić 2013, pp. 11–12.
- ^ Pandžić 2013, p. 11.
- ^ a b Pandžić 2013, p. 14.
- ^ Pandžić 2013, p. 12.
- ^ a b Pandžić 2013, p. 15.
- ^ a b Pandžić 2013, p. 16.
References
- Pandžić, Bazilije (2013). "Anzelmo Katić, trebinjsko-mrkanski biskup (1760.-1792.)" [Anzelmo Katić, the bishop of Trebinje Mrkan (1760 – 1792)]. Susreti (in Croatian) (7). Grude: Matica hrvatska: 11–34.