On Friday, September 8, 2023, the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Pope Francis appointed Msgr. Zdenko Križić, O.C.D., heretofore Bishop of Gospić-Senj, as the Metropolitan Archbishop of Split-Makarska.

On Saturday, May 15, the seventy-sixth anniversary of the Bleiburg tragedy, the Bishop of Gospić-Senji celebrated Mass in front of the Church of the Croatian Martyrs in Udbina.