Episcopal Conference of Belarus
Conference of Catholic Bishops of Belarus is the collective body for national church matters 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
- Cardinal Kazimierz Świątek (1999 – 2006)
- Bishop Aleksander Kaszkiewicz (2006 – 2015)
- Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz (2015 – present)
Composition
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
The conference has committees, councils and sections responsible for various subjects, including:[1]
- Pastoral center
- Ecclesiastical court
- Construction Bureau
- Commission for the Family
- Catechetical section
- Commission for Translation of liturgical texts and official documents for Catholic Church God Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments
- Commission for Church music and worship God the Commission Discipline of the Sacraments
- Media
- Catholic Association for Communication SIGNIS-BELARUS.
- Caritas Belarus
See also
Notes
- ^ Bishops' Conference and structure from Catholic.by, retrieved 27 March 2021
- Further reading