Members of the Croatian Conference of Bishops and the Bishops’ Conference of Bosnia and Herzegovina held their twenty-first regular annual joint session on January 21, 2019, at the headquarters of the Croatian Conference of Bishops in Zagreb.

A meeting was held at the Bishop’s Residence in Požega between the bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Croatia and representatives of the Croatian Conference of Catholic Bishops on January 17, in a Christmas atmosphere on the eve of the International Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, at the invitation of the Catholic Bishop of Požega, Msgr. Antun Škvorčević, President of the Council of the Croatian Conference of Bishops for Ecumenism and Dialogue.

We, bishops of the Catholic and Serbian Orthodox Churches in Croatia, at the invitation of the Catholic Bishop of Požega, Msgr. Antun Škvorčević, met together at the Bishop's Residence in  Požega on January 17, 2019.

On Thursday, January 17, at the initiative of the Archbishop and Metropolitan of Rijeka, Msgr. Ivan Devčić, President of the Committee of the Croatian Conference of Bishops for the Mass Media, a meeting was held at the headquarters of the Croatian Conference of Bishops in Zagreb between representative of the Croatian Catholic Network and representatives of other electronic and print media organizations.

The Archbishop of Zagreb, Cardinal Josip Bozanić, gave an extensive interview to the Croatian Catholic Network (HKM) during the last days of the ad limina visit by the Croatian bishops to Rome. He was interviewed by Slavko Antunović, a journalist and editor of the Catholic Press Agency—IKA—Zagreb, and spoke, among other things, about meeting with the Holy Father, Blessed Alojzije Stepinac and the need to open the historical archives in Croatia.

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The Secretary for Relations with States within the Secretariat of State of the Holy See, Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, visited Croatia from October 9 through 12.

On October 3, the twentieth anniversary of the beatification of Cardinal Alojzije Stepinac, the priests of the ecclesiastical territory of Zagreb made a pilgrimage to the parish of the Most Holy Trinity in Krašić, the birthplace of the beatus. Mass was led by the Archbishop of Zagreb, Cardinal Josip Bozanić, in concelebration with the bishops and priests of the Metropolitan Archdiocese.

The twentieth anniversary of the beatification of Cardinal Alojzije Stepinac was commemorated on October 3 at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, led by the General Secretary of the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union, Fr. Olivier Poquillon, OP, in concelebration with Fr. Bernard Senelle, OP.