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Vatican City, 9 June 2015 (VIS) – The Holy Father has appointed Rev. Fr. Aliaksandr Yasheuski, S.D.B., as auxiliary of the archdiocese of Minsk-Mohilev (area 69,800, population 4,253,000, Catholics 610,000, priests 124, religious 147), Belarus. The bishop-elect was born in 1974 in Smarhon, Belarus, gave his perpetual vows in 1998, and was ordained a priest in 2000. He holds a licentiate in dogmatic theology from the Pontifical Salesian University of Rome, and has served in a number of pastoral roles in the diocese of Grodno, Belarus, including parish administrator, and within his community as director of the Salesian novitiate in Oktiabrsk in the province of Moscow, Russian Federation. In Minsk he has served as parish vicar, director of the office for education and religious teaching, director of the Salesian community, and teacher of dogmatic theology at the centre for the preparation of catechists. He is currently parish vicar in Smarhon, director of the local Salesian community, and vicar and bursar of the Belarusian delegation of the Salesian society.