Fudbalski klub Borac Banja Luka is a Bosnian professional association football club, based in the city of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and is the major part of the Borac Banja Luka Sports Society. Borac Banja Luka is one of the most popular football clubs in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The name Borac means "Fighter".
Vinko Puljić is a Bosnian prelate of the Catholic Church who has been a cardinal since 1994. He was the archbishop of Vrhbosna from 1991 to 2022.
The Catholic Church in Bosnia and Herzegovina is a part of the worldwide Catholic Church under the spiritual leadership of the pope in Rome.
The Diocese of Banja Luka is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in western Bosnia. The diocese is centred in the city of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The Metropolitan Archdiocese of Vrhbosna is an ecclesiastical archdiocese of the Catholic Church. Its territorial remit includes the eastern parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the entirety of the Republic of North Macedonia. Its episcopal see is the city of Sarajevo (Vrhbosna), the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The archdiocese has the following suffragans: in North Macedonia the Diocese of Skopje; in Bosnia, the dioceses of Banja Luka, Mostar-Duvno and Trebinje-Mrkan.
Franjo Komarica is a Bosnian-Herzegovinian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the bishop of Banja Luka from 1989 to 2023.
Ratko Perić is a prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the bishop of Mostar-Duvno and apostolic administrator of Trebinje-Mrkan from 1993 until his retirement in 2020. After his retirement in July 2020, he briefly served as the apostolic administrator of both dioceses until the instalment of his successor Petar Palić in September 2020.
Marko Maksimović is a Bosnian professional football manager and former player.
Alojzije Mišić was a Bosnian Croat Franciscan and prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the bishop of Mostar-Duvno and the apostolic administrator of Trebinje-Mrkan from 1912 until his death in 1942.
Šargovac is a village in the municipality of Banja Luka.
Motike is a village in the municipality of Banja Luka, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Marijan Marković was Bosnian Croat Franciscan friar of the Franciscan Province of Bosna Srebrena, bishop and apostolic administrator of Banja Luka.
Alfred Pichler was the Roman Catholic Bishop of Banja Luka, the first bishop of Banja Luka who was diocesan priest and the first who was born on the territory of the Diocese of Banja Luka.
Stanisław Gądecki is a Polish Roman Catholic Bishop and doctor of Theological Sciences who has served as Archbishop of Poznań since 2002. Since 2014, he has served as President of the Polish Episcopal Conference, and since 2016, as Deputy President of the Council of the Bishops' Conferences of Europe.
Paškal Buconjić was Herzegovinian Croat Franciscan and a prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the first bishop of Mostar-Duvno from 1881 to 1910, as the apostolic administrator of Trebinje-Mrkan from 1890 to 1910, as the apostolic vicar of Herzegovina from 1880 to 1881, and as custos of the Franciscan Custody of Herzegovina between 1874 and 1879.
Evgenije Letica was a Serbian theologian, Metropolitan of the Eparchy of Banja Luka (1900-1907) and Metropolitan of Dabar-Bosna.
Pejo Ćošković, born on 12 April 1952 in Domaljevac near Bosanski Šamac, is Bosnian medievalist and lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Sarajevo, Department of History, in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Ex hac augusta Principis Apostolorum cathedra is a papal bull issued by Pope Leo XIII on 5 July 1881, by which he restored the regular Church hierarchy in Bosnia and Herzegovina after its occupation by Austria-Hungary from the Ottoman Empire, with Archdiocese of Vrhbosna seated in Sarajevo having three suffragan dioceses: Banja Luka, Mostar-Duvno and Trebinje-Mrkan, with latter being under the administration of the bishop of Dubrovnik.
Jefrem Milutinović, born Mile Milutinović, is a Serbian Orthodox prelate. He is the sixth bishop of the Eparchy of Banja Luka. He was consecrated Bishop of Banja Luka in 1980, and before the outbreak of the Yugoslav Wars he spoke for peace and tolerance.
Željko Majić is a Bosnian-Herzegovinian prelate of the Catholic Church who is currently the bishop of Banja Luka since March 2024. Before his appointment, Majić served as a vicar general of the dioceses of Mostar-Duvno and Trebinje-Mrkan from 2012 to 2021.
