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https://kamenjar.com/katolickoj-crkvi-2 ... -travniku/Translation from Croatian is courtesy of Google...
The building of the Seminary in Travnik was returned to the Catholic Church 20 years after the verdict
After several years of usurpation, the authorities in Travnik returned possession of the entire building of the "Petar Barbarić" Archbishop's Seminary to the Archdiocese of Vrhbosna, although the ruling on this was made by the then House for Human Rights of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2002.
The headmaster of the Mixed High School, Adnan Grabus, handed over the keys to the building to the rector of the Archbishop's Seminary, Rev. Željka Marić, while the mixed secondary school moved to a newly built building for which the land was donated by the Archdiocese of Vrhbosan. The Archbishop's Seminary reported that the confiscated property used by the County Archives and a number of other properties that were owned by them in Travnik remained to be returned.
The return to possession of the building of the Archbishop's Seminary 'Petar Barbarić' ended an almost two and a half decade long legal dispute with the local authorities in the majority Bosniak center in central Bosnia.
The fight for confiscated property was started by the first rector of the Seminary, Rev. Pero Pranjić in 1998. The House for Human Rights of BiH, which was later abolished, ruled in 2002 in favor of the Vrhbosna Archdiocese, and in 2012 the Constitutional Court confirmed the decision of the House for Human Rights and ordered the return of the building to the ownership of the Catholic Church. Due to non-implementation of that decision, the Vrhbosna Archdiocese filed an appeal to the European Court of Human Rights, which again ruled in their favor in 2017.
In the same year, the church filed a new lawsuit for illegal use of the facility, which was also resolved affirmatively in the local court.
In the building of the 'Petar Barbarić' Archbishop's Seminary, a mixed secondary vocational school functioned for years and only in a third of the building the Catholic School Center (KŠC), which, like other educational institutions, was founded by the Catholic Church throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina in areas where there is no education according to the Croatian curriculum. plan and program.
The Catholic seminary was established in Travnik in 1882, shortly after Austria-Hungary took control of BiH. It was later attended by many famous students. One of them was Petar Barbarić, whom Pope Francis declared a servant of God in 2015. The communist authorities shortly after the end of World War II. during World War II, the seminary building was stolen from the Catholic Church.
