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Roman Catholic Cardinal. Born in Osijek in the then Austro-Hungarian empire, successively Yugoslavia and present day Croatia, Franjo Šeper was raised in Zagreb, where he entered seminary in 1924. Pursuing his studies in Rome, he was ordained priest at the Patriarchal Liberian Basilica in October 1930 along with Alojzije Stepinac, who would become his predecessor in the archbishopric see of Zagreb, declared blessed by Pope John Paul II in 1998. Back in Zagreb, he taught religion in mid-schools until 1934, when he was appointed secretary to the local archbishop. Rector of Zagreb's seminary between 1941 and 1951, when to named Cardinal Stepinac was confined in house imprisonment in his native town of Krašić, he was appointed coadjutor of the metropolitan see of Zagreb "sedi datus", receiving his episcopal consecration in September 1954. Succeeding to the named metropolitan see on March 5, 1960, following Stepinac's death, Pope Paul VI created him cardinal priest with the title of Ss. Pietro e Paolo in Ostiense in the consistory of February 22, 1965, appointing him later prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in 1968. Camerlengo of the Sacred College of Cardinals between 1974 and 1976, he resigned the prefecture due to ill health in 1969. He passed following a heart attack at the Policlinico Gemelli in Rome assisted by his sister and one of Zagreb's auxiliary bishops. Following the celebration of a funeral mass at St. Peter's Patriarchal Basilica, presided by Pope John Paul II, his body was transferred to Zagreb for internment in the metropolitan cathedral.
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Franjo Šeper (2 October 1905 – 30 December 1981) was a Croatian prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith from 1968 to 1981, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1965. Before that, he served as the Archbishop of Zagreb from 1960 to 1969.
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Biography Born in Osijek, in the Austro-Hungarian Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia (present-day Croatia), he and his family moved to Zagreb in 1910; his father was a tailor and his mother a seamstress. He started his seminary studies in Zagreb then at the Pontifical Gregorian University) in Rome. He was ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Giuseppe Palica on 26 October 1930. His first pastoral assignments were in the Archdiocese of Zagreb and, in 1934, was appointed private secretary to the Archbishop. In 1941, father Šeper became the rector of the archdiocesan seminary, a post which he held for the next decade. On 22 July 1954 he was named Coadjutor Archbishop of Zagreb and Titular Archbishop of Philippopolis; he received his episcopal consecration on the following 21 September from Archbishop Josip Ujčić of Belgrade. He succeeded Cardinal Aloysius Stepinac as Archbishop of Zagreb on 5 March 1960, and was created Cardinal-Priest of Ss. Pietro e Paolo a Via Ostiense by Pope Paul VI in the consistory of 22 February 1965. Prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith He was named Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) on 8 January 1968. Šeper was also the…
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Death and legacy Pope John Paul II accepted Šeper's resignation as Prefect on 25 November 1981. He died on 30 December in Gemelli Hospital, where he had been hospitalized for a month. John Paul presided at his funeral Mass, and Šeper's body was later transferred to Zagreb, where it is buried beside the tomb of Cardinal Stepinac.