Tomo Vukšić
Tomo Vukšić (born 9 January 1954) is a theologian and a prelate of the Catholic Church from Bosnia and Herzegovina who was named metropolitan archbishop of Metropolitan Archdiocese of Vrhbosna in January 2022, after serving two years as archbishop coadjutor. He has also been the apostolic administrator of the Military Ordinariate of Bosnia and Herzegovina since 2020. Early life Vukšić was born in Studenci, Ljubuški in the region of Herzegovina. He attended elementary school in Studenci from 1961 to 1965, and then in Ljubuški from 1965 to 1969. After graduation, he enrolled at a classical gymnasium in Zagreb and studied there until 1973. He then went to the Catholic Faculty of Theology in Sarajevo, where he studied until 1980. He briefly interrupted his academic education to serve in the Yugoslav People's Army in Subotica in 1977 and Zrenjanin in 1978. After graduation, Vukšić was ordained a priest on 29 June 1980. Priesthood Vukšić served as a chaplain at the Mostar cathedral and worked as a journalist for the diocesan magazine Crkva na kamenu from 1980 to 1982. He then studied in Rome, earning a licentiate in theology from the Pontifical Oriental Institute in 1984 and another in canon law from