Aleksander Kaszkiewicz
Aleksander Kaszkiewicz (also Alyaksandr Kashkevіch, Belarusian: Аляксандр Кашкевіч, Lithuanian: Aleksandras Kaškevičius; born on September 23, 1949 in Eišiškės, Lithuania) is the Bishop of the Diocese of Grodno, a Catholic diocese centered in the city of Grodno (Belarus).
Kaszkiewicz graduated from the Theological Seminary in Kaunas and was ordained to the priesthood on May 30, 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 April 13, 1991, Pope John Paul II appointed Kaszkiewicz to the newly formed Diocese of Grodno. On May 23, 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 June 14, 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.
External links
- http://catholic.by/port/conference/kashkevich.htm
- http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bkasz.html
- http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/grod0.htm