SVEĆENIK STROSSMAYEROVA VREMENA
BEING PRIEST IN STROSSMAYER’S TIMES

Summary/Abstract: Nearly every well-educated layman in Croatia and the region considers Strossmayer a Maecenas, a politician, an orator and an educator. Again, every student of divinity in a Roman-Catholic seminary considers Strossmayer an exceptionally active participant during the First Vatican Council. They all know that Strossmayer was a bishop. It is this service that has systematically been neglected, in both spoken and written debates. The aim of this paper is to approach Strossmayer as a bishop through his written exchanges with the clergy. His writings appear in the form of refl ections, summons, initiatives and decisions sent to the episcopal clergy as memos and pastoral letters. He had been writing these regularly during Lent, but also in special occasions, as after certain canon visitations or as a refl ection on a certain problem or topic.

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