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Stanislav Hočevar (; born 12 November 1945) has been the Roman Catholic archbishop of the Archdiocese of Belgrade in Serbia since 2001. He was also the president of the International Bishops' Conference of Saints Cyril and Methodius between 2001 and 2011.〔GCatholic.org:(Metropolitan Archdiocese of Beograd, Serbia )〕 ==Biography== Hočevar was born on 12 November 1945 in the village of Jelendol in PR Slovenia,〔The Hierarchy of the Catholic Church: (Archbishop Stanislav Hocevar, S.D.B. )〕 then part of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. After the primary school graduation in 1960 in Škocjan, he joined the Salesians of Don Bosco. He studied gymnasium in Križevci and Rijeka. Hočevar served in the Yugoslav People's Army in 1966/67 in Skopje. After that, he was instructor at the catholic novitiate in Želimlje near Ljubljana. He studied theology at the Theological Faculty in Ljubljana. Hočevar was ordained a priest on 29 June 1973. He achieved a magister degree at the Theological Faculty in Ljubljana in 1979 with thesis on ''Personal sin in today's hamartiology''.〔(Arcbihop page ) at the Archdiocese of Belgrade official site 〕 Between 1982 and 1984, Hočevar was the deputy of the Salesian Provincial of Slovenia. Later, he served four years as the principal of the catholic boarding school in Klagenfurt, Austria. In 1988 he was appointed Salesian Provincial of Slovenia, the position he held until 2000. He has taken part in four Salesian General Chapters in Rome. He served two terms as the president of the Conference of senior religious leaders of Slovenia, and then for two years as the Secretary General of the same conference.〔 In 1999, during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, Hočevar launched an initiative titled "Peace to you, the Balkans" and also established a fund for families with many children called "Anin sklad" (''Ana's Harmony''). In 2000 pope John Paul II appointed Hočevar the coadjutor bishop of Belgrade. He was ordained a bishop on 24 May 2000 in the Church of Mary Help of Christians in Ljubljana. On 31 March 2001, pope accepted a request for the removal of the former Archbishop France Perko, so Hočevar became Archbishop of Belgrade. On 16 April 2001 he was elected president of the Bishops' Conference of Yugoslavia, later renamed International Bishops' Conference of Saints Cyril and Methodius, an office he served until 2011.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Stanislav Hočevar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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