Vatican
City, June 2015 (VIS) – Today, the Holy Father has
appointed Bishop Lionginas Virbalas, S.J., as Metropolitan Archbishop
of Kaunas (area 8,750, population 661,000, Catholics 530,000, priests
135, religious 227), Lithuania. Archbishop Virbalas, previously
bishop of Panevezys, Lithuania, succeeds Archbishop Sigitas
Tamkevicius, S.J., whose resignation from the pastoral care of the
archdiocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age
limit.
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