Stanislav Zore
{{short description|20th and 21st-century Slovenian Catholic Archbishop}}
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Andrej Glavan
Stanislav Lipovšek
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Stanislav (Stane) Zore, O.F.M. (born 7 September 1958), is a Slovenian prelate of the Catholic Church who has been the archbishop of Ljubljana since 2014.
Biography
Stane Zore was born on 7 September 1958 in Znojile, a village in Sela pri Kamniku in Upper Carniola in what was then the Socialist Republic of Slovenia, Yugoslavia. His father was a miner in the chalk mine in Črna in Tuhinjska valley and his mother managed the family farm. Stane had three siblings.{{cite news | access-date = 26 May 2024 | url = https://old.delo.si/novice/slovenija/kdo-je-stane-zore.html | language =sl | title=Kdo je Stane Zore | trans-title=Who is Stane Zore | work =Delo | date = 4 October 2014}} He went to school there and in Kamnik and graduated from Serafin College in Kamnik in 1977. He then entered the Franciscan novitiate at Kostanjevica in Nova Gorica and took his first vows in 1978. He studied philosophy and theology at the Faculty of Theology in Ljubljana from 1977 to 1984 in two stages, interrupted beginning in 1980 by his military service in Koprivnica and Varaždin.{{cite web| url=https://katoliska-cerkev.si/ssk/ljubljanska-metropolija-2/ljubljanski-nadskof-metropolit-msgr-stanislav-zore | language =sl | website =Katoliska-cerkev.si |title= Ljubljanski nadškof metropolit msgr. Stanislav Zore | url-status=live| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20240411002256/https://katoliska-cerkev.si/ssk/ljubljanska-metropolija-2/ljubljanski-nadskof-metropolit-msgr-stanislav-zore | archive-date= 11 April 2024}} On 4 October 1984 he took solemn vows in the Order of Friars Minor. He was ordained a priest on 29 June 1985.{{cite press release | access-date = 25 May 2024 | date = 4 October 2014 | publisher=Holy See Press Office | language =it|url = https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2014/10/04/0705/01558.html | title = Rinunce e Nomine, 04.10.2014 }}
He was parish vicar, parish priest, rector of the national sanctuary of Brezje and of Sveta Gora, guardian in various fraternities and master of novices. From 1998 to 2004 he was Provincial Minister of the Franciscan Province of Santa Croce in Slovenia. He served as Provincial Minister of his order again from 2011 to 2015, and in 2014 he was President of the Conference of Men and Women Religious in Slovenia (KORUS).
Pope Francis named him archbishop of Ljubljana on 4 October 2014. He received him episcopal consecration there on 23 November from Archbishop
Juliusz Janusz, Apostolic Nuncio to Slovenia. As the archbishop of Ljubljana he is also the Grand Chancellor of the Faculty of Theology of the University of Ljubljana.{{cn|date=May 2024}} He was the 36th ordinary of Ljubljana, and the first Franciscan.{{cite news | access-date = 26 May 2024 | language =sl | url = https://www.rtvslo.si/slovenija/prenehati-se-moramo-bati-drug-drugega-in-si-nasprotovati/347926 | trans-title= 'We must stop fearing each other and opposing each other' | date = 4 October 2014 | title= 'Prenehati se moramo bati drug drugega in si nasprotovati' | work= RTVSLO}}
From 2017 to 2022 he served a five-year term as head of the Slovenian Episcopal Conference.
References
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External links
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- [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bzore.html Catholic-hierarchy.org - Archbishop Stanislav (Stane) Zore, O.F.M.]
- [https://nadskofija-ljubljana.si/nadskofija/nadskof-ordinarij/ Bio], Archdiocesan website
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Category:People from the Municipality of Kamnik
Category:Slovenian Friars Minor
Category:Bishops appointed by Pope Francis
Category:University of Ljubljana alumni
Category:Roman Catholic archbishops of Ljubljana
Category:20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Slovenia
Category:21st-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Slovenia