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Wednesday 13 January 2010

12:46 - SLOVENIAN BISHOPS: MGR. ANTON STRES IS THE NEW PRESIDENT

Mgr. Anton Stres, 35th metropolitan archbishop of Ljubljana, is the new president of the Slovenian Bishops Conference, appointed on January 11th during the LII General Ordinary Assembly of Ces. Born in 1942 in the village of Donaèka Gora, which belongs to the parish of Rogatec, in 1960 Stres joined the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists) in Belgrade. At the Institut Catholique de Paris, in 1969 he got a diploma in theology, followed over the years by a PhD in philosophy and doctor’s degrees in theology and philosophy. Since 1972, he has been a lecturer at the Faculty of Theology in Ljubljana, and has been its dean for a few years. His different appointments include that of deputy president of the European Commissions for Justice and Peace, advisor to the Papal Council for Justice and Peace, and envoy of the Slovenian Bishops Conference to Comece. Consecrated bishop of Maribor in 2000, he was the first bishop of the diocese of Celje, erected in 2006; and in 2007 he was appointed deputy president of the Slovenian Bishops Conference. In November 2009, Benedict XVI appointed him metropolitan archbishop of Ljubljana. The new deputy president of Ces is mgr. Franc Kramberger, metropolitan archbishop of Maribor.

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