Conference of Catholic Bishops of Belarus is the collective body for national church matters and the administration of the
Catholic Church in Belarus
The Catholic Church in Belarus is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. The first Latin Church diocese in Belarus was established in Turaŭ between 1008 and 1013. In the subsequent centuries, ...
. It was established and approved on February 11, 1999. The first chairman was Cardinal
Kazimierz Świątek
Kazimierz Cardinal Świątek (; 21 October 1914 – 21 July 2011) was a Cardinal (Catholic Church), cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who was most known for his resistance to Cold War-era Soviet communism and for his service in Minsk, Belar ...
.
Chairmen of the Conference
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Cardinal
Cardinal or The Cardinal most commonly refers to
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Kazimierz Świątek
Kazimierz Cardinal Świątek (; 21 October 1914 – 21 July 2011) was a Cardinal (Catholic Church), cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who was most known for his resistance to Cold War-era Soviet communism and for his service in Minsk, Belar ...
(1999 – 2006)
* Bishop
Aleksander Kaszkiewicz (2006 – 2015)
* Archbishop
Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz
Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz (; born 3 January 1946) is a Belarusians, Belarusian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Minsk-Mohilev, Archbishop of Minsk–Mohilev from 2007 to 2021. He has been a bishop since 1989, ...
(2015 – 2021)
* Bishop
Aleh Butkewitsch (2021 - 2024)
* Archbishop
Josif Staneuski (since 2024)
Composition
As of 2025, the conference consisted of:
* Archbishop of Minsk-Mohilev
Josif Staneuski, Chairman
* Bishop of
Vitebsk
Vitebsk or Vitsyebsk (, ; , ; ) is a city in northern Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Vitebsk Region and Vitebsk District, though it is administratively separated from the district. As of 2025, it has 358,927 inhabitants, m ...
Aleh Butkewitsch, deputy chairman
* Assistant Bishop of Minsk-Mohilev,
Juri Kasabutski, Secretary-General
* Bishop of
Pinsk
Pinsk (; , ; ; ; ) is a city in Brest Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Pinsk District, though it is administratively separated from the district. It is located in the historical region of Polesia, at the confluence of t ...
Anthony Demyanko
* Bishop of
Grodno
Grodno, or Hrodna, is a city in western Belarus. It is one of the oldest cities in Belarus. The city is located on the Neman, Neman River, from Minsk, about from the Belarus–Poland border, border with Poland, and from the Belarus–Lithua ...
Uladzimir Guliai
* Assistant Bishop of
Pinsk
Pinsk (; , ; ; ; ) is a city in Brest Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Pinsk District, though it is administratively separated from the district. It is located in the historical region of Polesia, at the confluence of t ...
,
Andrei Znosko
* Assistant Bishop of Minsk-Mohilev,
Aleksandr Jaschewski
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Structure
The conference has committees, councils and sections responsible for various subjects, including:
* 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.
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Caritas Belarus
Caritas Belarus (; "Religious Mission 'Caritas Catholic Charitable Society' of the Catholic Bishops' Conference in Belarus") is a not-for-profit social welfare organisation in Belarus. It is a service of the Catholic Church in Belarus.
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See also
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Episcopal Conference
An episcopal conference, often also called a bishops’ conference or conference of bishops, is an official assembly of the bishops of the Catholic Church in a given territory. Episcopal conferences have long existed as informal entities. The fir ...
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Catholic Church in Belarus
The Catholic Church in Belarus is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. The first Latin Church diocese in Belarus was established in Turaŭ between 1008 and 1013. In the subsequent centuries, ...
Notes
;Further reading
gcatholic.org
External links
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Belarus
Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Belarus spans an a ...
Catholic Church in Belarus
Christian organizations established in 1999
1999 establishments in Belarus