Bishop Alojzije Slavko Večerin (Serbian Cyrillic: Славко Вечерин; 6 June 1957 – 26 August 2022)[1] was a Serbian Roman Catholic prelate who served as the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Subotica in Serbia from 8 September 2020 until his death.
Bishop Večerin was born into a Vojvodina Croats Roman Catholic family in Palić (town located in the city of Subotica).
[2] After graduation from the primary school in his native town and the classical gymnasium in Subotica in 1976, he consequently joined the Archdiocesan Theological Seminary in Zagreb and the Theological Faculty at the University of Zagreb, where he studied from 1976 until 1983,[3] and was ordained as priest on 14 August 1983 for his native Diocese of Subotica,[4] after completed his philosophical and theological studies.
Then, in 1991, he was transferred to Subotica, where he served as a spiritual director in the Minor Seminary Paulinum and archivist of the Episcopal Ordinariate.
[3] He was the Vicar General of the Diocese of Subotica since 2005 until 2020 and was a member of the Liturgical Council of the International Bishops' Conference of Saints Cyril and Methodius from 1999 to 2009.