611 KB53 KB199320252009Pelikan, Egonletnik:17številka:4str. 737-756ISSN:1318-0185COBISSID:1726931URN:URN:NBN:SI:doc-ZZCM63ZPslUniverza na Primorskem, Znanstvenoraziskovalno središčeZgodovinsko društvo za Južno PrimorskoActa HistriaeCatholic Churchduhovščinafašizemgoriška nadškofijaJugoslavijakatoliška cerkevOVRAPrimorskaSlovenian LittoralState Security Administrationsvetovna vojna 1939-1945Toroš, MihaelUDBAYugoslaviaDr. Mihael Toroš| primorski duhovnik med državnimi in cerkvenimi oblastmi|In this article a short biography of Dr. Mihael Toroš is presented as an illustrative example of the broader history of the Slovene clergy in Primorska during the period starting before WWI, spanning the time between the two wars, and ending after WW2 in the late nineteen-fifties. The first part of the discussion focuses on the position of the Slovene clergy in the Julian March under Fascist rule during the time between the two world wars, while the second part outlines the fate of the Slovene clergy in the Yugoslav part of the Archidiocese of Gorizia in the period between 1945 and 1955. The article exposes the dominant directives among the majority of Slovene clergymen in Primorska between the end of WW1 and the end of WW2. These directives had a major influence on the activities of the clergy following the end of WW2, and are discussed through the prism of Dr. Mihael Toroš. Within the scope of Mihael Toroš's biography, the author discusses Church history in Primorska as perceived through the relations between the church, the state and the individual. He finds that between 1918 and the end of the fifties, clergymen from Primorska found themselves in a certain "legislational vacuum", where Church legislation, state legislation, ethical norms, and current sets of values underwent radical changes and were subjects of loose definitions and even looser interpretations. It is impossible to understand the fate of Dr. Mihael Toroš or the fate of the majority of the clergymen Primorska in socialist Yugoslavia after 1945 without first understanding the circumstances within the comprehensive time period previously mentioned. The biography of Dr. Toroš confronts us with the complex history of the Catholic Church in Primorska during one of the most complicated periods of history. In this sense, the biographical contribution is a source of questions which we will only be able to answer after new archive sources are analysed in more detailTEXTznanstveno časopisjejournalsSlovenian National E-content AggregatorNational and University Library of SloveniaUniverza na Primorskem, Znanstveno-raziskovalno središče Koper