Subject: 'austraLasia' # 320
SALESIAN APPOINTED AS COADJUTOR ARCHBISHOP OF BELGRADE
via ANS
ROME: 30th March -- Fr. Stanislav Hocevar, Provincial of Slovenia, has been
appointed by the Holy Father as Coadjutor Archbishop of Belgrade, capital of
the Federal Republic of Jugoslavia. Fr. Stanislav was born in Slovenia in
1945. He entered the Salesians and completed all his studies both before
and after ordination in Jugoslavia (as it was then). In 1987, after working
in Formation, and after spending six years as Vice Provincial, he was
nominated Provincial of Slovenia. He was reconfirmed in office in 1993.
In the meantime, Archbishop-elect Hocevar has been involved in many of the
sensitive spots in ther egion, supporting and indeed advancing the Salesian
presence. Together with the Provincial of Southern Italy in 1992 he set up
the Salesian presence in Albania. Subsequently he has been involved in
supporting those confreres working not only in Albania, but also those who
entered Pristina and Podgoriza in Kosovo. His role as Provincial also meant
frequent visits to and support of confreres working in Belgrade and other
parts of the Rump Jugoslavia.
