ABSTRACT
On 25 July 1935, the agreed text of a concordat between Yugoslavia and the Holy See was signed in Rome between Lujevit Auer, the Yugoslav Minister of Justice, and Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli, the Vatican Secretary of State.1 The concordat was designed to replace all earlier concordatory agreements which had governed the role and position of the Roman Catholic Church in the component parts of what became Yugoslavia in 1918. Once signed, the concordat had to be ratified by the Yugoslav parliament. Two years were to pass, however, before it was ratified by the lower house, the Skupstina, and it was not even considered by the upper house, the Senate, with the result that it was never ratified and ultimately proved to be an abortive exercise.
