new residential bishop on 9 October 1881. The emperor's appointment was sent to Rome for official confirmation and Pope Leo XIII confirmed the appointment on 18 November 1881, absolving Buconjić of the title of Bishop of Magydus. Buconjić was enthroned on 30 April 1882. As a bishop, Buconjić favored the Franciscan Custody more than his diocese. Rather than opening seminaries for the education of the diocesan clergy, Buconjić helped found two Franciscan seminaries; one as a gymnasium in Travnik that opened in 1882 and the other in Sarajevo as a theology seminary that opened in 1893. Only five diocesan priests were ordained during Buconjić's episcopate, compared with the ordination of over 70 Franciscans. Buconjić gave away some of the diocesan property to the Custody. Buconjić agreed to make the diocesan cathedral a Franciscan friary church while the new cathedral church was to be built with help from the imperial government. Buconjić informed the Propaganda about this on 14 May 1885. He approved the construction of the Franciscan friary near the redesignated cathedral on 30 April 1886. Buconjić consecrated the cornerstone of the Franciscan friary, which was built on the site of a former parochial residence on 19 March 1889. Buconjić bought land for a new cathedral church in the Rondo quarter of Mostar. The land for the new cathedral was later put under a lien in benefit of the Franciscan Custody of Herzegovina due to debt; at that time, Buconjić was bedridden. The cathedral was never built, and the lend was later confiscated by the Yugoslav communist authorities, who constructed House of Culture on its place. After the Austrian-Hungarian occupation in 1878, many Muslims, from whom Bishop Buconjić bought lands around Nevesinje and Bijelo Polje left the country. Buconjić helped Catholic Croats from areas around Ljubuški and Mostar, where they were overpopulated, to settle there. He also helped a number of his relatives to move near Nevesinje. The authorities obstructed these internal migrations and encouraged migration from outside Bosnia and Herzegovina. Buconjić helped to establish higher education in Mostar, helping with the establishment of the Franciscan Seminary of Theology at the Franciscan friary in Mostar. He officially opened the seminary on 7 October 1895. By establishing the Seminary of Theology, the Franciscan Custody of Herzegovina provided for the education of its cadets. Buconjić built the Bishop's Ordinariate in Glavica, Mostar, from 1905 to 1909, and moved into it on 24