Mato Vodopić
Mato Vodopić (13 December 1816 – 13 March 1893) was a Croatian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as bishop of Dubrovnik from 1882 until he died in 1893 and Apostolic Administrator of Trebinje Mrkan from 1882 until 1890.Vodopić's collection of folk names eventually helped Bogoslav Šulek to compile his dictionary.The Dubrovnik magazine published Tužna Jelka in which he described the hard life of sailors, where Jela is a mother of two sons, both of whom died while sailing.He also wrote another tale, called Na Doborskijem razvalinama (The Wrecks of Dobor), where he writes about a misadventure of a Christian family and a convert to Islam.[3] After the Herzegovina uprising started in Herzegovina, where Christians rebelled against the Ottoman Empire, Vodopić wrote a poem titled Robinjica (Slave woman), about a girl being enslaved by Smail Agha Čengić, an Ottoman landlord.The Catholics of Trebinje-Mrkan became frustrated with the lack of material aid from the new Austrian-Hungarian authorities, as well as the inactivity of Vodopić as their administrator.[8] Provicar of Trebinje-Mrkan Lazar Lazarević wrote to the Propaganda in Rome on 11 June 1887, requesting again the appointment of the new bishop and protection of Catholics from the new authorities.[8] In the summer of the same year, Lazarević also wrote to the Austrian-Hungarian government in Sarajevo about Bishop Paškal's encroachment in Trebinje-Mrkan.[11] Finally, on 17 June 1889, the Austrian-Hungarian government in Sarajevo and the Joint Ministry of Finance presented their Proposal to Galimberti, in which they suggested that the bishop of Mostar-Duvno should administer Trebinje-Mrkan.[13] The Austrian-Hungarian government also requested that the Bishop of Mostar-Duvno, even though just an apostolic administrator, should have a regular jurisdiction in Trebinje-Mrkan and that he could appoint the Franciscans to priestly duties.[13] The Propaganda ordered that the bishop of Mostar-Duvno administer Trebinje-Mrkan on 16 June 1890, a decision confirmed by the Pope on 8 July 1890.