Government donates property to Porec-Pula Diocese

Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic and Porec-Pula Bishop Drazen Kutlesa in Porec on Wednesday signed a real estate donation agreement for Villa Idola in the northern Adriatic city of Pula, with accompanying facilities and land.

The property, which will house the diocese offices, stretches on 5,016 square metres and is worth more than HRK 19.7 million.

The decision to donate the said property to the diocese was made at a government session in Knin earlier this summer.

Underlining that it is significant that the deed of donation is being signed on the day when Croatia commemorates the victims of all totalitarian and authoritarian regimes, Plenkovic said Villa Idola in Pula would help cater for the needs of the diocese and its believers.

Bishop Kutlesa said the Church had been trying to find a solution for the diocese offices for the past 70 years, adding that more than one third of the diocese's believers lived in Pula. "Many believers have asked for that," the bishop said.

State Assets Minister Goran Maric expressed satisfaction with the signed agreement, saying that his ministry could not restitute what had been confiscated in the past and had to donate to right the wrongs from the past.

Text: Hina

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