- Military Ordinariate of Lithuania
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The Military Ordinariate of Lithuania (Lithuanian: Lietuvos kariuomenes ordinariatas) is a military ordinariate of the Roman Catholic Church. Immediately subject to the Holy See, it provides pastoral care to Roman Catholics serving in the Lithuanian Armed Forces and their families.
History
The military ordinariate was established by Pope John Paul II on 25 November 2000.
Military ordinaries
- Eugenijus Bartulis (current incumbent, appointed 25 November 2000)
- Gintaras Grusas (he will be ordained to the episcopate as military ordinary in the Cathedral of Saints Stanislaus and Vladislaus in Vilnius, Lithuania on September 4, 2010, the anniversary of Pope John Paul's visit). Bishop-designate Grusas, 48 (born 1961), was originally a technological consultant for marketing at IBM and was born in Washington, D.C., and raised in Los Angeles. He studied for the priesthood beginning at 28, first at the Franciscan University of Steubenville in Steubenville, Ohio, then in 1990 (when the Pope visited his college) in Rome, at the Pontifical Beda College, then after that at the Pontifical Lithuanian College and then the Angelicum (the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas). He was ordained a priest in 1994 for the Archdiocese of Vilnius.
References
- Military Ordinariate of Lithuania (Catholic-Hierarchy)
- Lietuvos kariuomenės ordinariatas (Giga-Catholic)
- Agreement between the Holy See and the Republic of Lithuania (Vatican website)
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