Conference of Catholic Bishops of Belarus

Conference of Catholic Bishops of Belarus is the collective body of the national church and the administration of the Catholic Church in Belarus. Established and approved on February 11, 1999. The first chairman was Cardinal Kazimierz Świątek.

Chairmen of the Conference

Cardinal Kazimierz Świątek (1999 to 2006)

Bishop Aleksander Kaszkiewicz from 2006 to 2015

Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz from 2015 to present

Composition

At present (2015), the Conference shall consist of:

Archbishop of Minsk-Mohilev, Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz, Chairman

Bishop of Vitebsk Aleh Butkewitsch, deputy chairman

Assistant Bishop of Grodno Josif Staneuski, Secretary-General

Bishop of Grodno Aleksander Kaszkiewicz

Bishop of Pinsk Anthony Demyanko

Assistant Bishop of Pinsk, Kazimierz Wielikosielec

Assistant Bishop of Minsk-Mohilev, Juri Kasabutski

Assistant Bishop of Minsk-Mohilev, Aleksandr Jaschewski

Structure

Pastoral center

Ecclesiastical court

Construction Bureau

Commission for the Family

Catechetical section

The section on translation of liturgical texts and official documents of the Commission of the Catholic Church of God Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments

Section of church music and worship God the Commission Discipline of the Sacraments

Responsible for the media

Catholic Association for Communication SIGNIS-BELARUS.

See also

Episcopal Conference

Roman Catholicism in Belarus

Notes

http://catholic.by/2/ru/conference/bishops.html

External links

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