fra Jozo Zovko

Jozo Zovko was born March 19, 1941 in Uzarići, the parish of Siroki Brijeg. He finished his primary school in Siroki Brijeg.
In 1958 entered the seminary in Bol on the island Brač. He began studying theology in Sarajevo in 1963 and then was transferred to Ljubljana where he graduated in 1967. He was ordained in June 1967. In 1974 he started taking courses in post-laurem University of Gratz in religious education. Despite the offers to remain in the university he has decided to return to his home and there became the parish priest in Posušje. From Posusje in 1980. moved to the parish of Medjugorje. After the apparitions by Our Lady in Medjugorje was pursued by the comunistic authorities and sentenced to three and a half years imprisonment. Since 1985. 1991. lives and works as a priest in Tihaljina.
1991 transferred to Siroki Brijeg, where he was the guardian of the monastery from 1991 to 1994. Father is active in many organizations of the Message of Medjugorje: Crown of Thorns, United Kingdom, Peace and Good, Italy, etc. …