Episcopal Conference of Belarus
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Conference of Catholic Bishops of Belarus is the collective body of the national church and the administration of the Catholic Church in Belarus. It was established and approved on February 11, 1999. The first chairman was Cardinal Kazimierz Świątek.
Chairmen of the Conference[edit]
- Cardinal Kazimierz Świątek (1999 to 2006)
- Bishop Aleksander Kaszkiewicz from 2006 to 2015
- Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz from 2015 to present
Composition[edit]
As of 2015, the conference consisted 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[edit]
There are committees, councils and sections on various subjects and responsibilities including:[1]
- Pastoral center
- Ecclesiastical court
- Construction Bureau
- Commission for the Family
- Catechetical section
- Translation of liturgical texts and official documents of the Commission of the Catholic Church of God Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments
- Church music and worship God the Commission Discipline of the Sacraments
- Media
- Catholic Association for Communication SIGNIS-BELARUS.
See also[edit]
Notes[edit]
- ^ Bishops' Conference and structure from Catholic.by, retrieved 27 March 2021
- Further reading
