Janusz Kaleta

His Excellency
Janusz Kaleta
Bishop of Karaganda
Church Roman Catholic
Diocese Karaganda
Appointed 5 February 2011
Predecessor Jan Paul Lenga
Orders
Ordination 4 June 1989
by Jerzy Karol Ablewicz
Consecration 23 November 2006
by Angelo Sodano
Rank Bishop
Personal details
Born October 11, 1964
Łazy, Poland
Nationality Polish
Previous post Apostolic Administrator of Atyrau (1999-2012)
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Janusz Kaleta (born on October 11, 1964 in Łazy, Poland) is a Polish Roman Catholic bishop of Karaganda, apostolic administrator of Atyrau, Kazakhstan, and Doctor of Moral Theology and Bioethics, graduated from the Faculty of Theology in Innsbruck.

He was ordained a priest in 1989 in the Diocese of Tarnów. From 7 July 1999 is the Apostolic Administrator of Atyrau, Kazakhstan. On September 15, 2006 was elevated to the episcopate by Pope Benedict XVI appointed him titular bishop.[1] Kaleta worked pastorally in Nowy Wiśnicz and Bochnia. After studying theology in Innsbruck in 1997 obtained a doctorate in moral theology, and his work devoted to issues of bioethics. In 1999 he moved to pastoral work in Kazakhstan. On July 7, 1999 John Paul II created the country's Apostolic Administration of Atyrau, the first with their manager was appointed Father Kaleta. This church subdivision includes western regions of Kazakhstan bordering the Caspian Sea. In an area of over 736 thousand km2, and thus more than twice higher than the Polish, lives more than 2.2 million people, including more than 2.5 thousand. Catholics, in a large proportion of foreigners, working in oil companies. He works among them at present (2008), eight priests. Consecrated on November 23, 2006 at St. Peter at the Vatican by Cardinal Secretary of State and retired dean of the College of Cardinals Angelo Sodano. Co-consacreted bishops were Bishop Wiktor Skworc and Bishop Henry Theophilus Howaniec, OFM. Established in June 2003 Conference of Bishops of Kazakhstan currently has five members, among them an Archbishop - Tomasz Peta, also the chairman of the episcopate, a titular archbishop, former bishop of Karaganda, Jan Paul Lenga, Bishop of the Diocese of the Holy Trinity in Almaty José Luís Mumbiela Sierra, and Auxiliary Bishop Athanasius Schneider of Karaganda. In this way, now at the forefront of all four territorial units to which it is divided into the Catholic Church in this country, facing the bishops. On February 5, 2011 Pope Benedict XVI appointed him bishop of Karaganda, while leaving it temporarily as an apostolic administrator of Atyrau.

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  1. ↑ "Bishop Janusz Kaleta", Catholic Hierarchy. Retrieved on 09 June 2014.