Pavao Zorčić


Pavao Zorčić, O.S.B.M. was a Croatian Greek Catholic hierarch. He was the titular bishop of Plataea and Vicar Apostolic of Marča from 1671 to 1685.

Life

He was born in Sveti Ivan Žabno, Habsburg's Kingdom of Croatia around 1620. As a young person he joined a monastery in Ivanić-Grad and was an author of an apology about unity with the Holy See.
He was appointed as the Bishop by the Holy See on 20 November 1671, and consecrated to the Episcopate on January 1672. The principal consecrator was Archbishop Onofrio Costantini.
He died in Marča on 23 January 1685.