Ratko Perić

History
History
Diaconal ordination
Date	13 April 1969
Place	Rome, Italy
Priestly ordination
Ordained by	Petar Čule
Date	29 June 1969
Place	Prisoje, Duvno, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia
Episcopal consecration
Principal consecrator	Franjo Kuharić
Co-consecrators	Josip Uhač Pavao Žanić
Date	14 September 1992
Place	Neum, Herzeg-Bosnia, Bosnia and Herzegovina

History
Ordination history of; Ratko Perić
Date
History
Diaconal ordination
Date	13 April 1969
Place	Rome, Italy
Priestly ordination
Ordained by	Petar Čule
Date	29 June 1969
Place	Prisoje, Duvno, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia
Episcopal consecration
Principal consecrator	Franjo Kuharić
Co-consecrators	Josip Uhač Pavao Žanić
Date	14 September 1992
Place	Neum, Herzeg-Bosnia, Bosnia and Herzegovina

The Most Reverend

Ratko Perić
The Most Reverend; Ratko Perić
Bishop Emeritus of Mostar-Duvno and Apostolic Administrator Emeritus of Trebinje-Mrkan
Church	Catholic Church
Diocese	Mostar-Duvno Trebinje-Mrkan
Appointed	24 July 1993
Retired	11 July 2020
Predecessor	Pavao Žanić
Successor	Petar Palić
Other post(s)	Apostolic Administrator of Mostar-Duvno (2020) Bishop Coadjutor of Mostar-Duvno (1992–93) Rector of the Pontifical Croatian College of St. Jerome (1979–92)
Personal details
Born	2 February 1944; Tuk, Rovišće, Independent State of Croatia
Nationality	Croat
Denomination	Catholic
Residence	Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Alma mater	University of Zagreb Pontifical Urban University
Motto	Kroz nevolje u kraljevstvo Božje (Through hardships to the kingdom of God)
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Ratko Perić (born 2 February 1944) is a prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the bishop of Mostar-Duvno and apostolic administrator of Trebinje-Mrkan from 1993 until his retirement in 2020. After his retirement in July 2020, he briefly served as the apostolic administrator of both dioceses until the instalment of his successor Petar Palić in September 2020.

Two issues, inherited from his predecessors, marked his episcopate: the Herzegovina Affair and the question of the alleged apparitions in Medjugorje. Regarding the first issue, the division of parishes between the Franciscan Province of Herzegovina and the diocese, Perić insisted on the implementation of Romanis Pontificibus, which decreed that Franciscans are ought to handover several parishes in Herzegovina. The parishes in question remained occupied by the Franciscans, with friars holding them being expelled from the Franciscan Order and banned from doing their priestly duties. Regarding the alleged apparitions in Medjugorje, Perić remained firm in expressing the official position of the Catholic Church and his predecessors, that nothing supernatural occurred in Medjugorje.