Erzbistum Vilnius - Kathedrale St. Stanislaus, Audrys Ba Kis, Jonas Boruta, Me Islovas Reinys, Jurgis Matulaitis (English, German, Paperback)

Kapitel: Kathedrale St. Stanislaus, Audrys Ba kis, Jonas Boruta, Me islovas Reinys, Jurgis Matulaitis, Liste Der Erzbischofe Von Vilnius. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Audrys Juozas Ba kis (born February 1, 1937) is a Lithuanian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He currently serves as Archbishop of Vilnius, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 2001. Audrys Ba kis was born in Kaunas to a Lithuanian diplomat family. As in 1938 Ba kis' father Stasys was assigned to France family stayed in the west after Soviet occupation during World War II. He completed his secondary education at the Institute Saint-Marie-de-Monceau, and studied philosophy at the Seminary of Saint-Sulpice in Issy-les-Moulineaux. Ba kis then went to Rome to study at the Pontifical Gregorian University, Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy, and Pontifical Lateran University, there Ba kis obtained his doctorate in canon law. Ba kis was ordained to the priesthood by Luigi Traglia on March 18, 1961, in Rome. He then did pastoral work among Lithuanian Americans in the United States, and finished his studies in Rome in 1964. In 1964 he entered the diplomatic service of the Holy See, serving as secretary of the nunciature to the Philippines (1964-1965), to Costa Rica (1965-1967), to Turkey (1967-1970), and to Nigeria (1970-1973). Ba kis was raised to the rank of Privy Chamberlain of His Holiness on June 26, 1965, and was called to the Council of Public Affairs of the Church in the Vatican Secretariat of State in 1973. He was the Vatican's delegate to the United Nations Conference in Vienna in 1975, and became Vice-Secretary of the Council for the Public Affairs of the Church in 1979. On August 5, 1988, Ba kis was appointed Pro-Nuncio to the Netherlands and Titular Archbishop of Meta by Pope John Paul II. He received his episcopal consecration on the following October 4 from Pope John Paul himself, with Cardinal Achille Silvestrini and Bishop Juozas Prei...http: //booksllc.net/?l=d