Aleksander Kaszkiewicz (also Alyaksandr Kashkevіch, be, Аляксандр Кашкевіч, lt, Aleksandras Kaškevičius; born on 23 September 1949) is the Bishop of the Diocese of Grodno, a Catholic diocese centered in the city of

Grodno Grodno (russian: Гродно, pl, Grodno; lt, Gardinas) or Hrodna ( be, Гродна ), is a city in western Belarus. The city is located on the Neman River, 300 km (186 mi) from Minsk, about 15 km (9 mi) from the Polish b ...

(

Belarus Belarus,, , ; alternatively and formerly known as Byelorussia (from Russian ). officially the Republic of Belarus,; rus, Республика Беларусь, Respublika Belarus. is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by R ...

). Kaszkiewicz graduated from the Theological Seminary in Kaunas and was ordained to the priesthood on 30 May 1976. After his ordination he worked as a parish priest in Panevėžys and in the parish of the Holy Spirit in

Vilnius Vilnius ( , ; see also other names) is the capital and largest city of Lithuania, with a population of 592,389 (according to the state register) or 625,107 (according to the municipality of Vilnius). The population of Vilnius's functional urb ...

(from 1981). On 13 April 1991 Pope

John Paul II Pope John Paul II ( la, Ioannes Paulus II; it, Giovanni Paolo II; pl, Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his ...

appointed Kaszkiewicz to the newly formed Diocese of Grodno. On 23 May 1991 he was ordained a bishop, consecrated by Archbishop

Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz Tadevuš Kandrusievič ( be, Тадэвуш Кандрусевіч; pl, Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz; born 3 January 1946) is a Belarusian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Minsk–Mohilev from 2007 to 2021. He has been a bish ...

. His episcopal motto is ''Jesu in te confido'' (''Jesus, I trust in You'') taken from the Divine Mercy image. On 14 June 2006 Kaszkiewicz was elected chairman of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of

. He is also the head of the Council of Youth Affairs and the Council for Catholic Education.

External links

* https://web.archive.org/web/20031122155541/http://catholic.by/port/conference/kashkevich.htm * http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bkasz.html * http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/grod0.htm {{DEFAULTSORT:Kaszkiewicz, Aleksander 21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in Belarus Living people 1949 births People from Eišiškės