[1] Ferić received his education from the Jesuits in Dubrovnik and Italy and earned a doctorate in canon law.
He was ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of Dubrovnik by the archbishop Arkanđeo Lunić on 14 April 1759 in his chapel of the Virgin of Rosary.
That same day, they chose the general vicar of the Archdiocese of Dubrovnik Bernard Zamagna as Katić's successor, but he refused the nomination.
[2] Ferić's consecrator was Cardinal Francesco Saverio de Zelada, with archbishops Antonio Felice Zondadari and Nicola Buschi serving as co-consecrators.
[5] Even though the firman wasn't issued, Ferić visited the parishes on the Ottoman territory at the end of 1793 and the beginning of 1794.
The Ragusans hoped that Husamuddin Pasha would soon be dismissed from his post and delayed the efforts to get the Sultan's firman.
However, as his dismissal didn't occur, the Ragusans tried again to get the firman directly from Istanbul in April 1795, and again failed, as their condition was the administrator's arz.
The Dalmatian government confirmed this appointment, and Sokolović served as the diocesan administrator for the next eighteen years.
Finally, through the efforts of the Austrian diplomacy, the Diocese of Trebinje-Mrkan was put under the administration of the bishops of Dubrovnik for an indefinite time by Pope Gregory XVI on 12 September 1839.