Alojzije Mišić OFM (10 November 1859 – 26 March 1942) was a Bosnian Croat Franciscan and prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the bishop of Mostar-Duvno and the apostolic administrator of Trebinje-Mrkan from 1912 until his death in 1942.

The Church hierarchy represented by the archbishop of Vrhbosna Josip Stadler and the Franciscan Province of Herzegovina had their candidates, while Mišić gained the support from the Austrian-Hungarian government.

The Franciscans, who by the papal Decisia of 1899 had lost the care of over half of the parishes but still made up the vast majority of the clergy, wanted to preserve the dominance of their Province.

Alojzije Mišić was born to Mate and Mara (née Križanović) in Gradiška in Bosnia Eyalet of Ottoman Empire and was christened as Stjepan.

[2][3] His parents intended to educate Mišić well and were helped in this effort by the local parish priest, fiar Marko Dulibić, who advised them to send Stjepan to a Franciscan seminary.

[12] Mišić also helped to boost the trade of Catholics in the city by reconciling the warring families and establishing the traders and artisans' society for mutual assistance.

Buconjić's stance so annoyed the elder Herzegovinian Franciscans that the new Provincial Luka Begić proposed himself as the bishop coadjutor during Emperor Franz Joseph's stay in Mostar on 3 June 1910.

[19] As requested by the canon law, on 19 December 1910, the Metropolitan Archbishop Stadler named Lazar Lazarević administrator in spiritual matters of the two Herzegovinian dioceses.

Many high-ranking Herzegovinian Franciscans ignored his instalment ceremony, including the administrator in material matters of the Diocese of Mostar-Duvno Radoslav Glavaš, Nikola Šimović, Anđeo Nuić and Ambrozije Miletić.

[39] In 1918, Austria-Hungary was dissolved, and the whole of Bosnia and Herzegovina was incorporated in the newly created Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, ruled by the Serbian Orthodox Karađorđević dynasty.

[9] Among the parishes he established are Čapljina (1917), Izbično (1917), Čitluk (1918), Gradac-Blizanci (1918), Tepčići (1918), Jablanica (1919), Grljevići (1919), Kongora (1921), Prisoje (1922), Kruševo (1924), Ledinac (1930), Rašeljke (1934), Crnač (1935) and Šipovača (1939).

[45] The Herzegovinian Franciscans used Mišić's origin as an uninformed Bosnian outsider to try to change Decisia, the decision from 1899 on the division of parishes between them end the diocesan clergy issued by the Holy See, to their advantage.

[42] On 25 April 1922, the Provincial of the Herzegovinian Franciscans Alojzije Bubalo wrote a petition for the pope to give them the parishes that were designated for the diocesan clergy by Decisia.

[44] At the time, Mišić was supposed to travel to Rome for an ad limina visit with the pope and was accompanied by friar Jerko Boras, custos of the Herzegovinian Franciscans.

Before giving the petition to the pope, Zuccotti invited Mišić, the protector of the Franciscan Order Cardinal Oreste Giorgi, and Boras to discuss the issue.

The reason for such a change was that the previous version opposed the canon law, which decreed that any newly established parish on the territory of an already existing one belongs to the bishop and not to any religious order.

[61] Mišić cared little about his clergy, ordaining only 28 diocesan priests and later limiting the number of Herzegovinian candidates in 1939 at the Seminary in Travnik to only 33,[42][52] possibly under the influence of the Franciscans.

[67] This move was highly unpopular with the Serb-dominated officer corps of the military and some segments of the public: a large part of the Serbian population, as well as liberals and Communists.

[68] Military officers (mainly Serbs) executed a coup d'état on 27 March 1941 and forced the Regent to resign, while King Peter II, though only 17, was declared of age.

[74] The remnants of the Yugoslav army, commanded by General Janković, took control of the hill above the Bishop's Ordinariate and opened fire using cannons and machine guns.

[75] Tomasevich writes that after pro-Ustashe rebel soldiers captured Iliči, the army recaptured it, taking some prisoners to Mostar, who they released the next day.

[76] To calm the situation and avoid further destruction and massacres, Mišić urged Franciscan Leo Petrović and a prominent lawyer Cvitan Spužević to arrange peace talks with General Janković.

[77] Contrary to these claims, Tomasevich notes that contemporary pro-Ustashe newspapers mentioned no massacres, just battles between the army and forces who switched to the Ustashe side.

The local parish priests Jozo Zovko and Andrija Majić reported the crimes to the Church authorities and "wept while they talked about the horrors".

After collecting the evidence, Mišić sent Majić and wrote a letter to thus report the crimes to the archbishop of Zagreb Aloysius Stepinac:"…[Ustasha officials] have abused their positions…People were caught like animals.

The sub-prefect of Mostar, Mr. Baljić, a Mohammedan, publicly declares - as an official, he should be silent and not utter such statements - that in Ljubinje, 700 schismatics [Orthodox Christians] were thrown into one pit alone.

[81] In the diocesan chronicle, Mišić was appalled by the crimes committed against the Serbs in Ljubinje, Stolac, Gornje Hrasno, Klepci, Šurmanci, Mostar, Ljubuški and Medjugorje.

[84] Mišić later wrote in the chronicle that conversions occurred in Ravno, Stolac, Mostar, Goranci, Mostarski Gradac, Ljuti Dolac, Gabela, Klepci and Humac.

On the same day, his body was transferred to the friary church in Petrićevac, where on 31 March, another memorial mass was held by the bishop of Banja Luka Jozo Garić, after which he was buried there according to his wish.

[96] After Mišić's death, on 29 March 1942, as dictated by the canon law, Čule was appointed as diocesan administrator by the archbishop of Vrhbosna Ivan Šarić.