Kazimir Forlani
Kazimir Forlani (Italian: Casimiro Forlani; 2 March 1834 – 3 August 1887) was a Croatian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as bishop of Kotor from 1879 until his death in 1887. He also served as auxiliary bishop of Split-Makarska from 1872 until 1880.
Biography[edit]
Forlani was born in Drniš in Dalmatia, Austrian Empire. He attended elementary school, gymnasium and theological studies in Zadar. Forlani studied theology at Augustineum in Vienna,[1] where he earned his Ph.D. in theology in 1859. There,[2] he was ordained a deacon on 1 December 1856, and a priest on 8 March 1857.[3]
In 1857, he started to lecture at the Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Zadar, where he taught the Old Testament[2] and Oriental languages from 1862 until 1866f and church history and canon law from 1866 until 1873.[1]
In 1872, he started publishing a magazine in Italian called La Dalmazia cattolica (the Catholic Dalmatia),[2] of which he was a publisher and editor-in-chief.[1] However, already in the second issue, some articles were written in Croatian.[4] Since September 1878, the magazine had bilingual title La Dalmazia cattolica - Katolička Dalmacija.[5] The magazine had a religious-political profile and became the most significant Catholic voice in Dalmatia.[6]
On 6 May 1872 Pope Pius IX appointed him Auxiliary Bishop of Split-Makarska and a Titular Bishop of Comana in present-day Turkey. He was consecrated on 17 November 1872 in Split by Bishop Marko Kalogjera.[3]
As a papal visitor, he officially visited the Franciscan parishes and monasteries in Herzegovina between 1878 and 1879, after which he went to Vienna and Rome, to inform the Austrian-Hungarian government and the Pope about his findings. While in Rome, he was appointed Bishop of Kotor[2] on 12 May 1879.[3] To make up for the lack of priests in the diocese, he initiated the opening of a seminary for priestly education. Forlani was first to preach in Croatian in Kotor.[1]
He died in Donja Lastva near Tivat.[1]
Notes[edit]
- ^ a b c d e Jerolimov 2009.
- ^ a b c d Pilić 2016, p. 54.
- ^ a b c Catholic Hierarchy.
- ^ Soljačić 2018, p. 6.
- ^ Soljačić 2018, p. 29.
- ^ Soljačić 2018, p. 25.
References[edit]
Books[edit]
- Soljačić, Mario (2018). Književni prilozi u Katoličkoj Dalmaciji (1870. - 1898.) [Literary contributions in Katolička Dalmacija (1870 - 1898)] (in Croatian). Zadar: University of Zadar.
Journals[edit]
- Pilić, Šime (2016). "Građa i prilozi za leksikon Drnišana" [Material and contributions to the lexicon of the people of Drniš]. Godišnjak Titius (in Croatian) (3): 11–138.
News articles[edit]
- Jerolimov, Pavao (2 March 2009). "Kažimir Forlani". Zadarski list. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
Web-sites[edit]
- "Bishop Casimiro Forlani". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Retrieved 18 September 2020.