John Bulaitis (26 June 1933 – 25 December 2010) was a Lithuanian prelate of the Catholic Church who served in the diplomatic service of the Holy See. He served terms as

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to several countries between 1981 and 2008. John Bulaitis, the prelate of the Catholic Church, is sometimes confused with John Bulaitis, Senior Lecturer in History at Canterbury Christ Church University, author of Communism in Rural France an
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, Bulaitis was ordained a priest for the

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, Lithuania, in 1958. To prepare for a career in the diplomatic service he entered the program of study at the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy in 1961. In 1981, he was named

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and apostolic nuncio to Chad and Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to the

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and the Republic of the Congo. On 11 July 1987, he was named Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to

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. On 30 November 1991, he was named Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Korea and he was given in addition the position of Apostolic Nuncio to

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on 8 September 1992. He was appointed apostolic nuncio to Albania on 25 March 1997. Bulaitis retired in 2008.

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Catholic Hierarchy: Archbishop John Bulaitis
Lithuanian Roman Catholic archbishops Roman Catholic titular archbishops Apostolic Nuncios to Albania Apostolic Nuncios to Mongolia Apostolic Nuncios to South Korea Apostolic Nuncios to Chad Apostolic Nuncios to the Central African Republic 1933 births 2010 deaths Apostolic Nuncios to the Republic of the Congo Apostolic Nuncios to Iran {{RC-archbishop-stub