Tomo Vukšić

Tomo Vukšić (born 9 January 1954) is a theologian and a prelate of the Catholic Church from Bosnia and Herzegovina who was named metropolitan archbishop of Metropolitan Archdiocese of Vrhbosna in January 2022, after serving two years as archbishop coadjutor. He was the apostolic administrator of the Military Ordinariate of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2020 to 2025.

Early life

Vukšić was born in Studenci, Ljubuški in the region of Herzegovina. He attended elementary school in Studenci from 1961 to 1965, and then in Ljubuški from 1965 to 1969. After graduation, he enrolled at a classical gymnasium in Zagreb and studied there until 1973. He then went to the Catholic Faculty of Theology in Sarajevo, where he studied until 1980. He briefly interrupted his academic education to serve in the Yugoslav People's Army in Subotica in 1977 and Zrenjanin in 1978. After graduation, Vukšić was ordained a priest on 29 June 1980 by Petar Čule, bishop of Mostar-Duvno.

Episcopacy

On 1 February 2011, Pope Benedict XVI appointed him the first bishop of the Military Ordinariate of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was consecrated a bishop on 2 April 2011 in Mostar by Cardinal Vinko Puljić.

On 22 January 2020, Vukšić was appointed archbishop coadjutor of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Vrhbosna and two days later he was named Apostolic Administrator of the Military Ordinariate of Bosnia and Herzegovina.