Kęstutis Kėvalas (17 February 1972 in Kaunas) is the current Archbishop of Kaunas.

Biography

Kęstutis Kėvalas studied from 1990 to 1992 at

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. In 1993 he entered the

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, where he studied until 1997 Catholic theology and philosophy. He then continued his studies at the Seminary of St. Mary in

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, where he earned a licentiate in theology. On 29 June 2000, he was ordained at the Cathedral Basilica of St Peter and St Paul. From 2001 to 2005 he was the head of the Archdiocesan Seminary Propaedeuticum and diocesan youth minister. In 2003 Kevalas started graduate doctoral studies in

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in Kaunas, where he completed a doctorate in 2008. Kevalas was nominated the Spiritual Priest of Kaunas Priest Seminary in 2005. On 8 February 2010 he became the program director of

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in Lithuania. On 27 September 2012 Pope

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appointed him titular bishop of

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and auxiliary bishop of Kaunas, and he was ordained as bishop by

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, Archbishop of Kaunas (later created cardinal in 2019). On 20 April 2017 he was appointed as Coadjutor Bishop of

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, then succeeded as bishop on 18 September. On 19 February 2020 he was promoted as Archbishop of Kaunas. The ingress to the Cathedral Basilica of apostles St. Peter and St. Paul of Kaunas took place on 24 June 202

External links

* http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bkevalas.html * https://kaunoarkivyskupija.lt/arkiv-kk/ 1972 births Living people 21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in Lithuania Archbishops of Kaunas Kaunas University of Technology alumni Academic staff of Vytautas Magnus University {{Lithuania-reli-bio-stub