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Msgr. Dra\u017een Kutle\u0161a was born in Tomislavgrad on September 25, 1968 to father Kre\u0161o and mother Danica Kutle\u0161a n\u00e9e \u0106uri\u0107. After attending primary school in Prisoje from 1975 to 1983, Kutle\u0161a joined the seminary and attended the Diocesan Classical Grammar School in Dubrovnik until 1987. He then continued his education by studying Philosophy and Theology at the Vrhbosna Catholic Theology in Sarajevo. He graduated from the Vrhbosna Catholic Theology in 1993 and in 1994 he earned his Bachelor\u2019s degree. Dra\u017een Kutle\u0161a was ordained as a priest of the Roman Catholic Mostar-Duvno Diocese in Prisoje on June 29, 1993. In 1995 Dra\u017een Kutle\u0161a enrolled in the postgraduate study of Canon Law at the Pontifical Urban University in Rome, where he earned his Master\u2019s degree in 1997 and Ph.D. in 2001.<\/p>\n

From 1993 to 1995 he served as chaplain at the Mostar Catholic Cathedral and catechist in secondary schools. From 1988 to 1996 he served a vice chancellor in the Diocesan Curia, rector of parish Grude, lecturer of Canon Law at the Theological Catechetical Institute in Mostar and member of the College of Advisors and the Council of Presbyters. From 2006 to 2011 Kutle\u0161a worked for the Dicastery for Bishops in Vatican. As of 2010 he is an associate member of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.<\/p>\n

Pope Benedict XVI appointed him as bishop coadjutor of Pore\u010d-Pula Diocese on September 17,2011. He was ordained as bishop on December 10, 2011 in the Euphrasian Basilica in Pore\u010d. His bishop\u2019s motto \u201cBut as for me, I trust in You, O Lord!\u201d is taken from Psalm 31. On June 14, 2012 Kutle\u0161a was appointed as diocesan bishop of the Pore\u010d-Pula Diocese.<\/p>\n

On July 11, 2020 Pope Francis appointed him archbishop coadjutor of the Split \u2013 Makarska Archdiocese and since then he has been serving the apostolic administrator of the Pore\u010d \u2013 Pula Diocese. Kutle\u0161a was ordained as Archbishop of the Split – Makarska Archdiocese on May 13, 2022 in the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Split.<\/p>\n

Pope Francis appointed him to the Dicastery for Bishops on July 13, 2022.<\/p>\n

On October 18, 2022 he was elected president of the Croatian Bishops\u2019 Conference within which he also serves as president of the Permanent Council, the Commission on Legal Affairs, and the Commission on Relations with the State.<\/p>\n

Dra\u017een Kutle\u0161a was appointed archbishop coadjutor of the Zagreb Archdiocese on February 14, 2023.<\/p>\n

Pope Francis has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Archdiocese of Zagreb, Croatia, presented by His Eminence Cardinal Josip Bozani\u0107 on Saturday April 15, 2023. Msgr. Kutle\u0161a succeeded Bozani\u0107 as Archbishop of the Zagreb Archdiocese. On the Feast of St. Catherine of Siena, doctor of the church and co-patroness saint of Europe, Msgr. Dra\u017een Kutle\u0161a took over his service of Archbishop of the Zagreb Archdiocese in the liturgical space of the Blessed Alojzije Stepinac next to the Zagreb Cathedral.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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