Vjekoslav Huzjak

Bishop Huzjak was born into a Croatian Roman Catholic family of father Matija and mother Štefanija (née Sović) in Varaždin County and has a one another sibling – brother Josip.

Huzjak served as a chaplain in the national shrine of Our Lady of Marija Bistrica (1986–1991) and a parish administrator in Savica-Šanci district of Zagreb (1991–1993).

Huzjak was appointed director of the Central Institution of the Croatian Bishops' Conference for the maintenance of clergy and other church officials.

[1] On December 5, 2009, he was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI as the first Diocesan Bishop of the new created Roman Catholic Diocese of Bjelovar-Križevci.

On March 20, 2010, he was consecrated as bishop by Cardinal Josip Bozanić and other prelates of the Roman Catholic Church at the Eugen Kvaternik square in front of the Cathedral of Saint Teresa of Avila in Bjelovar.