Archdiocese of Zagreb

Msgr. Marko Kovač was born on January 10, 1981 in Zagreb. He was baptized on March 15, 1981 in the parish church of St. Joseph in Trešnjevka, Zagreb, where he received the sacrament of Holy Confirmation on October 7, 1995.

 

He grew up in Trešnjevka. He attended elementary school from 1987 to 1995, and then continued his education at the Archdiocesan Classical Gymnasium in Zagreb as an external student (1995 - 1999), where he passed his matura in 1999. In the same year, he entered the Archdiocesan Theological Seminary and began studying philosophy and theology at the Catholic Faculty of Theology of the University of Zagreb.

 

After two years of study, in 2001, he was sent to Rome, where he continued his formation at the Pontifical Gregorian University, staying in the Germanicum et Hungaricum College. He received his baccalaureate on June 24, 2004, and then returned to Croatia. He was ordained a deacon on June 18, 2005, and a priest on June 17, 2006.

 

He was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Zagreb on November 17, 2025 by Pope Leo XIV, and consecrated a bishop on January 31, 2026 by Archbishop of Zagreb msgr. Dražen Kutleša.

 

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