(29 October 1807 – 27 August 1879) was a Herzegovinian Croat Franciscan and a prelate of the Catholic Church who served as Apostolic Vicar of Herzegovina in the Ottoman Empire from 1864 to 1879.

Anđeo Kraljević was born in the village of Čerigaj near Široki Brijeg in Herzegovina, at the time, part of the Ottoman Empire, to father Mate and mother Pera nee Slišković.

However, due to a lack of priests, in 1841 he was appointed a parson in Gradac, Mostar, where he served for a year, after which he returned to Kreševo as a guardian of the friary.

The Herzegovinian Franciscans established contact with the Vizier of Herzegovina Ali Pasha Rizvanbegović who was granted his own eyalet by the Ottoman sultan for his loyalty during the Bosnian uprising.

[7] In 1843, Barišić returned from a trip to Albania and stayed in Čerigaj, where Vidošević helped him to establish a connection with Ali-paša.

[9] In August 1853, the General of the Franciscan Order Venancio Metildi da Celano wrote to Kraljević that the Herzegovinian Franciscans lend money with interests, allow the commoners to keep their cattle in exchange for profit, buy cheaper things only to sell them at a higher price, and buy expensive clothes and asked him to investigate those issues.

The Deputy General of the Franciscan Order Zacharia a Viculis asked Kraljević to root out the existing misconduct.

[11][12] His first three-year term ended on 1 April 1856, when he was succeeded by Ilija Vidošević,[13] to whom he served as a secretary during his entire tenure, until 1862.

[3][2] After finishing his three-year term as a custos, Kraljević also lectured the seminarians of the Franciscan friary in Široki Brijeg.

[14] In 1856, on request of the Governor of the Sanjak of Herzegovina Ishak Pasha, Baršić recommended Kraljević to represent the Catholics in the Idar Majlis of Mostar.

Kraljević's fellow Franciscan Paškal Buconjić was lecturing in Rome at the time, and gave a positive opinion to Trionfetti, who ordered the work to be published in 1860.

At the same time, he was elected a guardian of the Široki Brijeg Franciscan friary, a position he held until 23 April 1861, when he was succeeded by Filip Ančić.

As a custos, he oversaw the end of the construction of the Franciscan friary in Široki Brijeg, expanded the monastic land, and bought a vineyard, and a mill.

He asked for the tax to be based on the property value and not on the number of inhabitants, regulation of the relations between serfs and feudal lords, and prevention of land seizure from peasants.

[18] After returning to Široki Brijeg in March 1865, he asked the Franciscans to find him a temporary replacement as a custos, until the new election.

[19] During the official ceremony, he was greeted by the Ottoman military and civil authorities, along with the consuls of the European powers and many of the faithful Catholics, and members of other religions.

On 7 March 1866, he blessed the cornerstone of the church, which was finally built in 1872, when the bishop consecrated it to the apostles Peter and Paul.

After he went to the First Vatican Council, he brought with him his sermons, and asked the Propaganda to publish them, which was approved in 1870, under the title Govorenja za svetkovine (Speeches during festivities).

[25] He met with the rebelled Catholics in Gabela together with Muslim dignitaries Mehmed Kapetanović of Ljubuški and Hamza Bey of Stolac.

[26] On 19 February 1876, Kraljević guaranteed to the Ottoman sultan, the European public, and the Holy See, that the Catholics hadn't taken part in the uprising.

[29] After finding that Serbia requested the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina from the Ottoman Empire,[30] Kraljević wrote to the Austrian-Hungarian authorities in Sommer of 1876,[23] not to allow this, stating that if the Ottoman authorities must leave, then Bosnia and Herzegovina should be annexed by Austria-Hungary, to whom the Catholics are connected by their "historical past, and many other moral and material interests".

[31] In 1878, he wrote to the nuncio in Vienna about the necessity of the introduction of the diocesan clergy in the vicariate because the head of the Franciscan Province had all authority, with the apostolic vicar being only a figurehead that confirms his decisions.

[32] The Franciscans of Herzegovina were on bad terms with Kraljević, claiming he didn't give them enough of the collected alms for the construction of the friary in Humac.

[34] In February 1877, Kraljević requested from the Propaganda to send an apostolic visitor in Herzegovina and accused Paškal Buconjić, at the time guardian of the Humac friary, of negligence towards the parishes and the Herzegovinian Franciscans of taking the payment for maintenance by force from the believers during the Easter Communion.

[35] The Congregation named Bishop Kazimir Forlani the apostolic visitor, and he arrived in Mostar in February the next year.

Forlani finished the report in May 1878 and advised the bishop to act in agreement with the Franciscans and to record revenues and expenditures, as well as to help the construction of the friary in Humac.