Andrej Saje (born 22 April 1966) is a Slovenian Roman Catholic prelate who is currently serving as the second bishop of the Diocese of Novo Mesto since 30 June 2021 and a president of the Episcopal Conference of Slovenia since 24 March 2022.
[1] After finishing primary school in Mirna Peč (1973–1981) and graduation gymnasium in Novo Mesto in 1985, he made a one-year of compulsory military service in the Yugoslavian Army (1985–1986) and entered to the Major Theological Seminary in Ljubljana and in the same time joined the Theological Faculty at the University of Ljubljana, where graduated in 1991[2] and was ordained a priest on 29 June 1992, for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ljubljana,[3] after completed his philosophical and theological studies.
Saje was engaged in the pastoral work and served as a parish priest in Grosuplje (1992–1994) and from 1994 until 1997 was a personal assistant of the Metropolitan Archbishop of Lubljana.
[2] In summer 1997 he continued his education in the Collegium Germanicum et Hungaricum and completed his studies with a Doctor of Theology degree in Canon law at the Pontifical Gregorian University in 2003.
He served as a spiritual assistant in the parish of Ljubljana-Ježica (2013–2015) and from 2014 until the summer of 2021, when he was appointed bishop, he was a spiritual assistant in Slovenian parishes in Sele and Bajdiše in the Klagenfurt-Land District of the Austrian Roman Catholic Diocese of Gurk.