Vittorio Pio Pinto, now a judge of the Roman Rota, the highest court of the Catholic Church. In 2003, he published parts of his dissertation in Mostar in Italian language titled Il Triangolo: i Frati Francescani OFM, il Vescovo diocesano e il Clero diocesano nella Diocesi di Mostar-Duvno dal 1881 al 1975 alla luce dei cinque più importanti documenti (). In 2003, Kutleša was appointed a parish administrator in Grude. The parish, nominally under diocesan administration, was usurped by three suspended Franciscan friars. At the same time, he lectured law at the Theological Institute of Mostar. Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, asked the bishop to put Kutleša for disposition to the Congregation. Kutleša joined the Congregation on 1 April 2006. From February 2011, Kutleša was also an associate of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments for the cases of giving forgiveness from hard and unconsummated marriage. On 13 May 2011, the Pope gave him the title of monsignor. Episcopate Poreč-Pula On 17 October 2011, Pope Benedict XVI named Kutleša the bishop coadjutor of Poreč-Pula with special powers in Croatia. He was consecrated in Euphrasian Basilica in Poreč on 10 December 2011 by Cardinal Marc Ouellet as the principal consecrator and the bishops Ivan Milovan of Poreč-Pula and Perić of Mostar-Duvno as the co-consecrators. He took Archbishop of Zagreb Cardinal Aloysius Stepinac's episcopal motto "In Thee, O Lord, have I hoped". Kutleša's appointment occurred amidst a dispute over the ownership of the real estate in the parish of Dajla between the Italian Benedictines and the Diocese of Poreč-Pula. The special powers granted to Kutleša related to the dispute over Dajla as well. The Italian Benedictines filed lawsuits both to the church authorities and the Municipal Court in Buje (later joined to the Municipal Court in Pula). They had the strong support of the Holy See. A three-member Church commission, including the Archbishop of Zagreb Josip Bozanić, made a decision favouring the Benedictines. Milovan refused to sign the agreement, so the Holy See appointed Cardinal Santos Abril y Castelló as a special signator in Milovan's name. The agreement put the Diocese at risk of bankruptcy. Milovan sought support from the Croatian government. So in August 2011, the Minister of Justice Dražen Bošnjaković declared the return of the real estate to the Church as invalid and took it under state ownership, with an