Birth Date: | 23 April 1906 |
Birth Place: | Punta Arenas, Chile |
Appointed: | 1 February 1949 |
Death Place: | Santiago, Chile |
Birth Name: | Vladimiro Américo Jorge Boric Crnosija |
Ordained By: | Pope Pius XII |
Ordination: | 2 October 1949 |
Vladimiro Américo Jorge Boric Crnosija (Croatian: Vladimir Borić Crnošija; 23 April 1905 – 29 August 1973) was a Chilean cleric and bishop for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Punta Arenas.[1]
He was born to Juan (Ive) Boric and Natalia Crnosija, both Croatian immigrants,[2] and completed his primary studies at the San José School.[3] He became ordained in 1930 and was appointed bishop in October 1949 by Pope Pius XII, becoming the first bishop of his hometown of Punta Arenas.[4] He died in Santiago on 29 August 1973, at the age of 68, less than two weeks before the 1973 Chilean coup d'état. His grandnephew, Gabriel Boric Font, is the current president of Chile.[5]