Kazimieras Steponas Šaulys (; 1872 – May 9, 1964) was a

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priest,

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, and one of the twenty signatories to the Act of Independence of Lithuania. He graduated from the Theological Seminary in Kaunas in 1895 and went on to receive a master's degree from the Roman Catholic Theological Seminary in St. Petersburg in 1899. Šaulys was then appointed curate at Saint Peter and Saint Paul

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. He was involved in a number of political, charitable, and educational institutions; in 1917 he participated in the Vilnius Conference, and signed the Act of Independence of Lithuania in 1918. Šaulys specialized in canon law and moral theology, serving as a professor in these subjects at the Kaunas Theological Seminary from 1922 to 1941. He published a number of articles on religious jurisprudence, including those sections of the Provisional Constitution that dealt with religion. After the Soviet re-occupation of Lithuania in 1944, he moved to

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, where he died twenty years later.

References

*" Šaulys, Kazimieras". Encyclopedia Lituanica V: 79-80. (1970-1978). Ed. Simas Sužiedėlis. Boston, Massachusetts: Juozas Kapočius. LCCN 74-114275. 1872 births 1964 deaths People from Šilutė District Municipality People from Rossiyensky Uyezd 19th-century Lithuanian Roman Catholic priests 20th-century Lithuanian Roman Catholic priests Members of the Council of Lithuania Lithuanian independence activists {{RC-clergy-stub