Maksimilijan Matjaž

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Mons. Maksimilijan Matjaž
Bishop of the Diocese of Celje
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ChurchRoman Catholic Church
Appointed5 March 2021
PredecessorStanislav Lipovšek
SuccessorIncumbent
Orders
Ordination29 June 1989
Consecration30 May 2021
by Jean-Marie Speich
Personal details
Birth nameMaksimilijan Matjaž
Born (1963-08-23) 23 August 1963 (age 58)
Črna na Koroškem, SFR Yugoslavia (present day Slovenia)
Alma materUniversity of Ljubljana,
Pontifical Biblical Institute,
Pontifical Gregorian University

Bishop Maksimilijan Matjaž (born 23 August 1963) is a Slovenian Roman Catholic prelate who is currently serving as the third bishop of the Diocese of Celje since 5 March 2021.

Early life and education[]

Maksimilijan Matjaž was born into a Roman Catholic family in Črna na Koroškem in northern Slovenia.[1]

He attended primary school in Mežica, and secondary school of economics in Slovenj Gradec, where he graduated in 1982. After made a one-year of compulsory military service in the Yugoslavian Army (1982–1983), he entered to the Major Theological Seminary in Ljubljana and in the same time joined the Theological Faculty at the University of Ljubljana, where graduated in 1988[2] and was ordained a priest on June 29, 1989, for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Maribor,[3] after completed his philosophical and theological studies.[1]

Coat of arms of Bishop Maksimilijan Matjaž

Pastoral and educational work[]

After his ordination Fr. Matjaž was engaged in the pastoral work and served as an assistant priest in Zreče (1989–1991). In summer 1991 he continued his education in the Collegium Germanicum et Hungaricum and completed his studies with a licentiate degree in a Biblical theology in 1995 at the Pontifical Biblical Institute and with a Doctor of Theology degree in the same discipline at the Pontifical Gregorian University in 1998.[2]

After returning to Slovenia, since 1998 he has been an assistant professor at the Faculty of Theology in the University of Ljubljana, and since 2001 a professor-assistant at the Department of Scripture and Judaism, and since 2011 an associate professor of Biblical Sciences and Judaism. Since 2013, he has been the head of the Department of Bible and Judaism at the Faculty of Theology at the University of Ljubljana.

Since 2006 he has been a member of the Priests' Council of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Maribor and since 2011 a member of the College of Counselors. He was also an assistant priest in the parish of Dravograd (1998–2010), in Zreče (2010–2012), in the pastoral unit Slovenj Gradec (2012–2013) and in the parish of Šentilj v Slovenskih Goricah (2013–2020).[1]

Prelate[]

On March 5, 2021, he was appointed by Pope Francis as the third bishop of the Diocese of Celje, instead of retired Bishop Stanislav Lipovšek. On May 30, 2021, he was consecrated as bishop by Apostolic Nuncio to Slovenia, Archbishop Jean-Marie Speich and other prelates of the Roman Catholic Church in the St. Mohorij in Fortunata Church in Gornji Grad.[3]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c "Celjski škof". Official Website of the Diocese of Celje (in Slovenian). Retrieved 25 September 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Celjski škof msgr. dr. Maksimilijan Matjaž". Official Website of the Episcopal Conference of Slovenia (in Slovenian). Retrieved 25 September 2021.
  3. ^ a b "Bishop Maksimilijan Matjaž". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 25 September 2021.
Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Diocesan Bishop of Celje
2021–present 		Incumbent


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