Vatican
City, 5 April 2013
(VIS) – Today, the Holy Father appointed Bishop Gintaras Linas
Grusas as archbishop of Vilnius (area 9,644, population 830,000,
Catholics 547,000, priests 169, religious 249), Lithuania. The
archbishop-elect was born in Washington, DC, USA in 1961, was
ordained a priest in 1994, and received episcopal ordination in 2010.
Most recently he has served on the Lithuanian Bishops' Conference as
secretary general and as Military Ordinary of Lithuania. He succeeds
Cardinal Audrys Juozas Backis, whose resignation from the pastoral
care of the same archdiocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having
reached the age limit.
Friday, April 5, 2013
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