Marjan Turnšek

Marjan Turnšek (born 25 July 1955) is a Slovenian Roman Catholic prelate who served as the first bishop of the newly created Diocese of Murska Sobota from 7 April 2006 until 28 November 2009, coadjutor archbishop of Archdiocese of Maribor from 28 November 2009 until 3 February 2011 and as an archbishop of the same archdiocese since 3 February 2011 until his resignation on 31 July 2013.

Education Turnšek was born into a Roman Catholic family in a regional center of the traditional Slovenian region of Styria.

After finishing primary school and graduation a classical gymnasium in his native city Celje in 1974, he was admitted to the Major Theological Seminary in Ljubljana and in the same time joined the Theological Faculty at the University of Ljubljana, where studied from 1974 until 1981 and was ordained as priest on June 28, 1981 for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Maribor by Bishop Franc Kramberger, after completed his philosophical and theological studies.

Pastoral and educational work After his ordination Fr. Turnšek served as an assistant priest in the parish of St. Martin in Velenje (1981–1985) and after that he continued his postgraduate studies at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Italy with a master's degree in 1987 and a Doctor of Theology degree in 1990. During this time he also graduated in a Library science at the Vatican Apostolic Library. and continued to teach at the Faculty of Theology of the University of Ljubljana.