Zagreb, Šibenik, September 17, 1996 (IKA) – Bishop Srećko Badurina of Šibenik, vice president of the Croatian Conference of Bishops, died on Tuesday, September 17 at approximately 8 a.m. at the Zagreb Clinical Hospital of the Sisters of Charity. Bishop Badurina had suffered a massive heart attack on Saturday, September 14, at the celebration of the feast of the Holy Cross in Ogulin. He was immediately taken to the Ogulin Hospital and subsequently transferred to the hospital in Zagreb.
Bishop Srećko Badurina was born on May 12, 1930 in Luna on the island of Pag to Pavao and Sokola (née Baričević) Badurina. In Split, he completed gymnasium (secondary school) as a candidate for Third Order Franciscans and undergraduate theological studies. At the Alphonsianum in Rome, he studied moral theology. He received a doctorate in moral theology from the Faculty of Theology in Zagreb and was ordained as a priest on June 29, 1955. From 1957 to 1964, he served as a teacher and master at the monastery of St. Francis Xavier in Zagreb. From 1968 to 1974, he was the guardian of the Franciscan monastery in Odra and director of the local secondary school for preparing priests. From 1974 to 1988, he taught moral theology at the junior college of theology in Rijeka and served as head of the monastery at Pehlin in Rijeka. He was appointed bishop on December 4, 1987, ordained on January 6, 1988 in Rome and served as the bishop of Šibenik since January 24, 1988. Bishop Srećko Badurina was the vice president of the Croatian Conference of Bishops and a member of its Permanent Council, the Commission for Establishing Relations Between the Church and State, and the Commission for Dialogue with the Serbian Orthodox Church.