Aleksander Kaszkiewicz
Aleksander Kaszkiewicz | |
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Church | Roman Catholic Church |
Appointed | 13 April 1991 |
Orders | |
Ordination | 30 May 1976 (Priest) |
Consecration | 23 May 1991 (Bishop) by Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz |
Personal details | |
Born | (1949-09-23) 23 September 1949 (age 74) Eišiškės, Lithuania SSR |
Aleksander Kaszkiewicz (also Alyaksandr Kashkevіch, Belarusian: Аляксандр Кашкевіч, Lithuanian: Aleksandras Kaškevičius; born on 23 September 1949)[citation needed] is the Bishop of the Diocese of Grodno, a Catholic diocese centered in the city of Grodno (Belarus).[1]
Kaszkiewicz graduated from the Theological Seminary in Kaunas and was ordained to the priesthood on 30 May 1976. After his ordination he worked as a parish priest in Panevėžys and in the parish of the Holy Spirit in Vilnius (from 1981). On 13 April 1991 Pope John Paul II appointed Kaszkiewicz to the newly formed Diocese of Grodno. On 23 May 1991 he was ordained a bishop, consecrated by Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz. His episcopal motto is Jesu in te confido (Jesus, I trust in You) taken from the Divine Mercy image.
On 14 June 2006 Kaszkiewicz was elected chairman of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of Belarus. He is also the head of the Council of Youth Affairs and the Council for Catholic Education.
References
- ^ https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bkasz.html
External links
- https://web.archive.org/web/20031122155541/http://catholic.by/port/conference/kashkevich.htm
- http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bkasz.html
- http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/grod0.htm
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- Cathedral of the Holy Name of Saint Virgin Mary
- Co-Cathedral of the Assumption of the Virgin and St. Stanislaus, Mogilev
- St. Francis Xavier Cathedral, Grodno
- Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Pinsk
- Cathedral of the Merciful Jesus, Vitebsk
- Old Cathedral of St. Barbara and St. Paul, Vitebsk
- Churches:
- Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Budslau
- St. Mary's Church, Grodno
- Church of Saint John the Baptist, Kamai
- Church of Holy Trinity, Minsk
- Church of Saints Simon and Helena, Minsk
- St. Nicholas' Church, Mir
- Transfiguration Church, Navahrudak
- Corpus Christi Church, Nesvizh
- Church of the Assumption, Pruzhany
- Church of the Holy Trinity, Hyervyaty
- Church of Mother of God of the Rosary, Soly
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