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{{Short description|Serbian Roman Catholic prelate (1957–2022)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2022}}
{{Infobox Christian leader
| name           = Alojzije Slavko Večerin
| image          = Coat of arms of Alojzije Slavko Večerin.svg
| birth_name     = Alojzije Slavko Večerin
| birth_date     = {{birth date|1957|06|06|df=y}}
| birth_place    = [[Palić]], [[SR Serbia]], [[Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia|FPR Yugoslavia]]
| death_date     = {{death date and age|df=yes|2022|08|26|1957|06|06}}
| death_place    = [[Kikinda]], Serbia
| church         = [[Roman Catholic Church]]
| title          = Diocesan Bishop of <br>[[Roman Catholic Diocese of Subotica]]
| appointed      = 8 September 2020
| ended          = 26 August 2022
| ordination     = 14 August 1983 ([[Priesthood (Catholic Church)|Priest]])
| ordained_by    =
| consecration   = 14 November 2020 ([[Bishop (Catholic Church)|Bishop]])
| consecrated_by = Bishop [[László Német]]
| predecessor    = [[János Pénzes]]
| successor      = [[Ferenc Fazekas]]
| previous_post  = Vicar General of [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Subotica|Diocese of Subotica]] (2005–2020)
| alma_mater     = [[University of Zagreb]]
}}
Bishop '''Alojzije Slavko Večerin''' ({{lang-sr-cyr|Славко Вечерин}}; 6 June 1957 – 26 August 2022)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.danas.rs/vesti/drustvo/preminuo-suboticki-biskup-mons-slavko-vecerin/|title=Preminuo subotički biskup mons. Slavko Večerin - Društvo - Dnevni list Danas|date=27 August 2022|access-date=27 August 2022|archive-date=27 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220827185846/https://www.danas.rs/vesti/drustvo/preminuo-suboticki-biskup-mons-slavko-vecerin/|url-status=live}}</ref> was a Serbian [[Roman Catholic]] prelate who served as the diocesan bishop of the [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Subotica|Diocese of Subotica]] in [[Serbia]] from 8 September 2020 until his death. He was a member of the [[International Bishops' Conference of Saints Cyril and Methodius]].
==Education==
Bishop Večerin was born into a [[Croats of Serbia|Vojvodina Croats]] Roman Catholic family in [[Palić]] (town located in the city of [[Subotica]]).<ref name="V">{{cite web|url=http://www.zvonik.rs/arhiva/1551/ZV23.html|title=Bački župnici VI|language=Croatian|work=zvonik.rs|accessdate=24 December 2021|archive-date=24 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211224144608/http://www.zvonik.rs/arhiva/1551/ZV23.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
After graduation from the primary school in his native town and the classical gymnasium in [[Subotica]] in 1976, he consequently joined the Archdiocesan Theological Seminary in [[Zagreb]] and the [[Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Zagreb|Theological Faculty]] at the [[University of Zagreb]], where he studied from 1976 until 1983,<ref name="IV">{{cite web|url=https://www.bitno.net/vijesti/svijet/mons-slavko-vecerin-imenovan-biskupom-suboticke-biskupije/|title=Mons. Slavko Večerin imenovan biskupom Subotičke biskupije|language=Croatian|work=bitno.net|date=8 September 2020 |accessdate=24 December 2021|archive-date=24 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211224144601/https://www.bitno.net/vijesti/svijet/mons-slavko-vecerin-imenovan-biskupom-suboticke-biskupije/|url-status=live}}</ref> and was ordained as [[priest]] on 14 August 1983 for his native [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Subotica|Diocese of Subotica]],<ref name="CH">{{Catholic-hierarchy|bishop|bvecerin|Bishop Alojzije Slavko Večerin|24 December 2021}}</ref> after completed his philosophical and theological studies.
==Later career==
After his ordination Fr. Večerin for a short time served as an assistant priest in the parish of the Holy Trinity in [[Sombor]] (1983–1985), until in the summer of 1985 he was appointed administrator of the parish of St. Paul in [[Bač, Serbia|Bač]]. Then, in 1991, he was transferred to [[Subotica]], where he served as a spiritual director in the Minor Seminary Paulinum and archivist of the Episcopal Ordinariate. From 1994 to 2006, he served as secretary of the Diocese of Subotica. At the same time he served as the parish priest in the parish of St. Peter and Paul in [[Bajmok]] (1998–2008), and then from 2011 to 2016 in the parish of Mary Mother of the Church in [[Subotica]], and at the same time he was the rector of the Marian shrine Bunarić. Since 2016 until 2020, he was the pastor of the parish of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in [[Sombor]].<ref name="IV"/>
He was the [[Vicar General]] of the Diocese of Subotica since 2005 until 2020 and was a member of the Liturgical Council of the [[International Bishops' Conference of Saints Cyril and Methodius]] from 1999 to 2009.<ref name="IV"/>
==Prelate==
On 8 September 2020, he was appointed by [[Pope Francis]] as third diocesan bishop of [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Subotica|Subotica]]. On 14 November 2020, he was consecrated as bishop by Bishop [[László Német]] and other prelates of the [[Roman Catholic Church]] in the [[St. Theresa of Avila Cathedral, Subotica|Cathedral of St. Theresa of Avila]] in [[Subotica]].<ref name="CH"/>
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[[Category:1957 births]]
[[Category:2022 deaths]]
[[Category:People from Subotica]]
[[Category:Croats of Vojvodina]]
[[Category:Croats of Serbia]]
[[Category:University of Zagreb alumni]]
[[Category:21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in Serbia]]
[[Category:Bishops appointed by Pope Francis]]