Milan Zgrablić

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Milan Zgrablić, born on 29 August 1960 in Pazin (then part of Yugoslavia, now Croatia), is a Croatian Catholic archbishop. He has been the archbishop of Zadar since 2023, after serving for a year as archbishop coadjutor.

He studied at the University of Rijeka and earned a licentiate in spirituality at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. He was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Poreč-Pula on 8 June 1986.

During his priestly career he worked in Rovinj as a parish vicar, taught and catechized in Zadar, and held several leadership roles, including diocesan vocations commissioner, head of Pazin College, and director of the diocesan Caritas. He also served as parish priest in Rovinj and led the Diocesan Institution for the Support of Clergy and Other Church Officials (2008–2022). From 2015 to 2022 he was cathedral pastor in Poreč and became a canon of the Poreč Cathedral in 2019.

Pope Francis appointed him archbishop coadjutor of the Archdiocese of Zadar on 7 April 2022. He was consecrated a bishop on 25 June 2022 in Zadar Cathedral by Archbishop Želimir Puljić. His episcopal motto is i rod donosite, meaning “and bear fruit,” from John 15:16. He became archbishop of Zadar on 14 January 2023 after Puljić’s retirement.