Ćiril Kos
Bishop Ćiril Kos (19 November 1919 – 6 July 2003) was a Croatian Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Diocesan Bishop of Đakovo or Bosna and Srijem since 6 February 1974 until his retirement on 6 February 1997. He also was a political prisoner in the former communist Yugoslavia during 1959–1962. Life Bishop Kos was born into a Croatian Roman Catholic family of Josip and Marija (née Fadiga) in the present-day Varaždin County, but in childhood transferred with own parents and grew-up in Harkanovci. After graduation of the school education in Široki Brijeg, Bosnia and Herzegovina, he consequently joined the Major Theological Seminary in Đakovo, and was ordained as priest on July 9, 1944 for the Diocese of Bosna, Đakovo and Srijem, after completed his philosophical and theological studies. From August 1944 until the end of October of the same year, he served as chaplain in Srijemska Mitrovica. In short, due to the circumstances of the war, he also served as the administrator of the same parish. From 1946 to 1951 he was the parish priest in Trnjani near Garčin. From 1951 to 1959 he was a spiritual director at his alma mater – Theological Seminary in Đakovo. Here