Ivo Gugić

Bishop Ivo Gugić (2 March 1920 – 3 June 1996) was a Roman Catholic prelate from Croatia, who served as the Diocesan Bishop of Kotor in Montenegro.

Ivo Gugić
Diocesan Bishop of
Roman Catholic Diocese of Kotor
ChurchRoman Catholic Church
Appointed22 November 1983
Term ended11 March 1996
PredecessorMarko Perić
SuccessorIlija Janjić
Orders
Ordination13 August 1944 (Priest)
Consecration13 August 1961 (Bishop)
by Pavao Butorac
Personal details
Born
Ivo Gugić

(1920-03-02)2 March 1920
Died3 June 1996(1996-06-03) (aged 76)
Kotor, Montenegro, FR Yugoslavia
(present day in Montenegro)

Life

He was born on 2 March 1920 in the small town of Vela Luka on the island of Korčula in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. Beginning in 1983, he began serving the Church and the people of Montenegro as a bishop in the Diocese of Kotor. In 1996, he ended thirteen years of service as a bishop. (He was succeeded by bishop Ilija Janjić.) However, he continued to work with the Montenegrin government through the committee for the protection of minority and ethnic group rights. He was murdered in the same year in which he retired as a bishop; he died on June 3, 1996, in Kotor.

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