Anton Stres

Anton Stres, C.M. (born 15 December 1942), was the archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ljubljana and the metropolitan bishop of Ljubljana as well as the president of the Slovenian Bishops' Conference from January 2010 until July 2013. As Archbishop of Ljubljana he was also the grand chancellor of the Faculty of Theology of the University of Ljubljana.

Biography

Education Stres was born on 15 December 1942 in Donačka Gora. He attended primary school (four years) in his home village, and finished lower secondary school (four years) in Rogaška Slatina. He continued his studies at the Interdiocese Preparatory Seminary in Zagreb, Croatia , taking his leaving exam in 1962. He entered the Congregation of the Mission, more commonly known as the Vincentians or Lazarists, on 22 August 1960 in Belgrade, Serbia.

Stres' education was then put on hold for two years because of mandatory military service in the Yugoslav People's Army; he was stationed in Ohrid, SR Macedonia. He continued his studies at the institute's Faculty of Philosophy and received a M.A. in philosophy in 1972.

Stres was also elected president of the Slovenian Bishops' Conference on 11 January 2010 and then again in 2012.

Other Stres is a member of the Slovenian Catholic Girl Guides and Boy Scouts Association. During Slovenia's efforts to become independent, Stres became a founding member of the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights and later member of its collegium.