Dražen Kutleša (born 25 September 1968) is a Croatian prelate of the Catholic Church who serves as the archbishop coadjutor of Zagreb since 2023 and the apostolic administrator of Poreč-Pula since 2020. Kutleša briefly served as the archbishop of Split-Makarska from 2022 to 2023 and as the bishop of Poreč-Pula from 2012 to 2020. Kutleša is a member of the Dicastery for Bishops and serves as the president of the Episcopal Conference of Croatia since 2022. A native of Tomislavgrad in Herzegovina, Kutleša was raised in the nearby paternal village of Prisoje, where he attended elementary school. After deciding to become a priest and joining the seminary, Bishop Pavao Žanić of Mostar-Duvno sent him for high school education in Dubrovnik from where he enrolled at the College of Theology of Vrhbosna in Sarajevo in 1987, graduating in 1993 in Bol due to war. The same year he was ordained as a deacon and a priest, and served for two years as a chaplain in Mostar. He continued his education in 1995 at the Pontifical Urban University, studying canon law, eventually earning his Ph.D. in 2001. From 2000 he served as the bishop's secretary and from 2003 he was a parish administrator in Grude and a lecturer of law at the Theological Institute of Mostar. In 2006, at the request of Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, Kutleša became a member of the Congregation for Bishops and in 2011 also an associate of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments. The same year, he was appointed the bishop coadjutor of Poreč-Pula, and after the resignation of Ivan Milovan in 2012, he became the bishop. He served there for eight years, until 2020 when he was appointed the archbishop coadjutor of Split-Makarska. In 2022, Kutleša succeeded Marin Barišić as the archbishop of Split-Makarska. Serving as the archbishop of Split-Makarska for only ten months, Kutleša was appointed the archbishop coadjutor of Zagreb to succeed Josip Bozanić in February 2023. Early life Dražen Kutleša was born in Duvno, present-day Tomislavgrad in Bosnia and Herzegovina to father Krešo and mother Danica née Ćurić, both from the village of Prisoje. His father was, like many men from his region, a gastarbeiter in Austria and West Germany. Thus, he and his brother Grgo were raised by their mother Danica. Dražen was christened in the village church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Dražen,