EUROPE/BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA – Appointment of the new Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies

Sarajevo – Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization , appointed Father Dubravko Turalija, a priest of the Archdiocese of Vrhbosna, as Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Bosnia and Herzegovina for a five-year term on April 30, 2026.
A priest of the Archdiocese of Vrhbosna and a university professor, Father Dubravko Turalija was born in 1977 in Livno. He attended primary school in Kupres, then the Minor Seminary and classical high school in Dubrovnik, Pazin, and Zadar from 1991 to 1995.
Father Turalija studied theology at the Vrhbosna Catholic Faculty of Theology in Boi, on the island of Brae, during the war years, and then in Sarajevo after the war .
Ordained a priest in 2002, the new director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Bosnia and Herzegovina served as parish vicar in Sarajevo and, since 2005, has been the personal secretary to Cardinal Vinko Puljic.
In 2005, he began his biblical studies at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 2009, he studied Greek in Athens and began a doctorate in biblical studies and Semitic Languages at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., which he completed in 2014.
Since 2015, he has taught at the Catholic Faculty of Theology in Sarajevo. He is the author of numerous studies and academic articles, has participated in various national and international conferences, and has led many spiritual retreats for priests, men and women religious.

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