Milan Zgrablić

Milan Zgrablić (born 29 August 1960) is a Croatian prelate of the Catholic Church who has been the archbishop of Zadar since 2023, after serving a year there as archbishop coadjutor.

Early life Milan Zgrablić was born on 29 August 1960 in Pazin in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (now Croatia), the fifth child born to a Catholic family headed by Josip and Josipa Zgrablić.

After graduating from the primary school in Pazin in 1976 and studying at the Minor Seminary in Pazin from 1976 to 1978, he attended the Zmajević Minor Seminary in Zadar from 1978 to 1980. He then entered both the University of Rijeka and the Major Theological Seminary in Rijeka, where he completed his work in philosophy and theology in 1986. He was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Poreč-Pula on 8 June 1986 in Rovinj. He received his episcopal consecration in the Cathedral of St. Anastasia in Zadar on 25 June 2022 from Želimir Puljić, Archbishop of Zadar. He chose as his episcopal motto the words "" ("and bear fruit"), taken from the words of Jesus in John 15:16: "You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit and your fruit to remain, and the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name."

He succeeded as archbishop upon Puljić's retirement on 14 January 2023.