Kazimierz Wielikosielec Explained

Type:Auxiliary Bishop
Honorific-Suffix:O.P.
Native Name:Казімір Вялікаселец
Native Name Lang:Belarusian
Auxiliary Bishop of Pinsk
Church:Catholic Church
Diocese:Pinsk
See:Blanda (titular)
Appointed:6 May 1999
Ordination:3 June 1984
Ordained By:Julijans Vaivods
Consecration:24 June 1999
Consecrated By:Kazimierz Świątek
Birth Date:May 5, 1945
Birth Place:Staravolia,, USSR
Coat Of Arms:Gerb biscop velikoselets.jpg

Kazimierz Wielikosielec (Belarusian: Казімір Вялікаселец, Kazimir Vialikaselets; born May 5, 1945) is a Belarusian prelate of the Catholic Church and a Dominican. Since 1992, he has been the Vicar General and Dean of the Diocese of Pinsk deanery in Baranavichy, and since 1999 an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Pinsk. In January 2021, he was appointed Apostolic Administrator of the Archdiocese of Minsk–Mohilev.

Vialikaselets was born in the village Staravolia, Pruzhany District. In 1981, he was admitted to the seminary in Riga. While studying at the seminary, he joined the Order of Dominican Fathers. After graduating from the seminary in 1984, Vialikaselets was ordained a priest by Cardinal Julijans Vaivods and was directed to his first parish of the Holy Trinity in Ishkaldz, Brest Region, Belarus. Because in those days lacked the priests, he also oversaw Catholic parishes in several neighbouring villages located in Hrodna Region and Minsk Region. In addition to the pastoral ministry of Father Vialikaselets dealt with the reconstruction and renovation of temples.

In 1992 he was appointed Vicar General of the Diocese of Pinsk, while performing duties of dean of the Baranavichy Decanate and pastor of the Church of the Holy Cross in Baranavichy.

On June 24, 1999, Kazimir Vialikaselets was consecrated Bishop at the Cathedral of Pinsk by Cardinal Kazimir Sviontak.

On January 3, 2020, Vialikasieliets was appointed Apostolic Administrator of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Minsk–Mohilev following the resignation of Archbishop Tadevush Kandrusevich.[1] [2]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Prelate blocked for months by Belarus resigns Minsk post. Associated Press. 14 May 2021.
  2. https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/archbishop-who-angered-minsk-resigns-after-hitting-age-limit/46258516 Archbishop who angered Minsk resigns after hitting age limit