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Antanas Vaičius
Antanas Vaičius (5 April 1926 – 25 November 2008) was a Lithuanian Roman Catholic prelate, who served as an Apostolic Administrator (1982–1989) and Diocesan Bishop (1989–2001) of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Telšiai. Early years Born in Geidučiai, present day Skuodas District Municipality, in a farmers family with four sisters and one brother, Antanas Vaičius during 1934–1943 studied in Šačiai, Mosėdis and Skuodas schools and joined to the Telšiai Bishop Vincentas Borisevičius Priest Seminary, where studied until 1946, when this seminary was closed by Soviets. From 1946 to 1951 he studied in the Kaunas Priest Seminary. During his studies, he was ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Telšiai by bishop Kazimieras Paltarokas on 24 September 1950. Pastoral and diocesan work Father Vaičius worked as an assistant priest, and after – as a parish priest in a various parishes of the Diocese of Telšiai: Plungė, Žygaičiai, Klaipėda, Salantai, Lauko ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Most Reverend
The Most Reverend is a style applied to certain religious figures, primarily within the historic denominations of Christianity, but occasionally in some more modern traditions also. It is a variant of the more common style "The Reverend". Anglican In the Anglican Communion, the style is applied to archbishops (including those who, for historical reasons, bear an alternative title, such as presiding bishop), rather than the style "The Right Reverend" which is used by other bishops. "The Most Reverend" is used by both primates (the senior archbishop of each independent national or regional church) and metropolitan archbishops (as metropolitan of an ecclesiastical province within a national or regional church). Retired archbishops usually revert to being styled "The Right Reverend", although they may be appointed "archbishop emeritus" by their province on retirement, in which case they retain the title "archbishop" and the style "The Most Reverend", as a courtesy. Archbishop Des ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apostolic Administrator
An Apostolic administration in the Catholic Church is administrated by a prelate appointed by the pope to serve as the ordinary for a specific area. Either the area is not yet a diocese (a stable 'pre-diocesan', usually missionary apostolic administration), or is a diocese, eparchy or similar permanent ordinariate (such as a territorial prelature or a territorial abbacy) that either has no bishop (an apostolic administrator ''sede vacante'', as after an episcopal death or resignation) or, in very rare cases, has an incapacitated bishop (apostolic administrator ''sede plena''). Characteristics Apostolic administrators of stable administrations are equivalent in canon law with diocesan bishops, meaning they have essentially the same authority as a diocesan bishop. This type of apostolic administrator is usually the bishop of a titular see. Administrators ''sede vacante'' or ''sede plena'' only serve in their role until a newly chosen diocesan bishop takes possession of the dioc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Territorial Prelature Of Klaipėda
The Roman Catholic Territorial Prelature of Klaipėda was a Roman Catholic territorial prelature which existed from 1926 to 1991 in the Lithuanian coastal area of Klaipėda (Lithuanian ''Klaipėdos kraštas''). Klaipėda had, between 1328 and 1920, been part of East Prussia, a province of Prussia which itself was part of Germany from 1871 to 1945/1947, but after the First World War, it became part of the administration of the League of Nations. In 1923, Lithuania invaded the territory and annexed it. As part of Lithuania, in 1926, the then four Catholic parishes were separated from the Diocese of Ermland (renamed Warmia in 1945), which it had been a part of since 1820. Since the area was small, and had few Catholic residents, it was not given a bishopric, but a territorial prelature. The prelature was vacant between 1939 and 1949 (when the Bishop of Ermland functioned as Apostolic Administrator), and after 1975. In contrast to the rest of Lithuania, which is overwhelmingly Roman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vicar Capitluar
:''See: Catholic Church hierarchy#Equivalents of diocesan bishops in law'' A diocesan administrator is a provisional Ordinary (Catholic Church), ordinary of a Roman Catholic particular church. Diocesan administrators in canon law The college (canon law), college of consultors elects an administrator within eight days after the episcopal see, see is known to be sede vacante, vacant. The college must elect as administrator a priesthood (Catholic Church), priest or bishop (Catholic Church), bishop at least 35 years old. If the college of consultors fails to elect a priest of the required minimum age within the time allotted, the choice of diocesan administrator passes to the metropolitan archbishop#Roman Catholic, metropolitan archbishop or, if the metropolitan see is vacant, to the senior by appointment of the suffragan bishops of the ecclesiastical province#Catholic Church, ecclesiastical province. If a diocese has a coadjutor bishop, the coadjutor succeeds immediately to the episc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |