Đuro Gašparović

Bishop Đuro Gašparović (Serbian Cyrillic: Ђуро Гашпаровић; born 20 June 1951) is a Roman Catholic prelate, Diocesan Bishop emeritus of the newly reestablished Diocese of Srijem in Serbia since 18 June 2008 until 14 February 2024.

Bishop Gašparović was born into a Vojvodina Croats Roman Catholic family of Antun and Ruža (née Bešker) near Stara Pazova.

After graduation from the school in his native town in 1966 and the classical gymnasium in the Minor Interdiocesan Seminary in Zagreb in 1968, he made the maturity exam at the Lyceum in Đakovo in 1970 and consequently joined the Major Theological Seminary in Đakovo, where he studied from 1972 until 1977,[1] and was ordained as priest on 29 June 1977 for the Diocese of Đakovo or Bosnia and Syrmia by Bishop Ćiril Kos,[2] after completed his philosophical and theological studies.

Also in the same time he served as the Vice-rector and Econom of the Pontifical Croatian College of St. Jerome (1980–1992) and an Official of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples in Vatican (1992–1996).

On 5 October 1996, he was consecrated as bishop by Cardinal Franjo Kuharić and other prelates of the Roman Catholic Church in the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul in Đakovo.