Bishop of Vilnius explained

Bishops of Vilnius diocese from 1388 and archdiocese (archdiocese of Vilnius) from 1925:[1] [2]

Bishops suffragans – diocese period
Andrzej Jastrzębiec OFM1388 – 14 November 1398
Jakub Plichta OFM5 May 1399 – 7 February 1407
Mikołaj GorzkowskiJanuary 14081414
Piotr Krakowczyk15 February 1415 – 22 December 1422
Matthias of Trakai4 May 1422 – 9 May 1453
Mikołaj z Sołecznik17 October 1453 – 29 September 1467
Jan I4 May 14681481
Andrzej II27 August 14811491
Wojciech Tabor1 April 1492 – 27 March 1507
Albert Radziwiłł10 September 1507 – 19 April 1519
John of the Lithuanian Dukes23 September 1519 – 15 March 1536
Paweł (prince) Holszański15 March 1536 – 4 September 1555
Walerian Protasewicz10 April 1556 – 31 December 1579
Jerzy Radziwiłł31 December 1579 – 9 August 1591
Benedykt Woyna31 July 1600 – 22 October 1615
Eustachy Wołłowicz18 May 1616 – 19 January 1630
Abraham Woyna24 March 1631 – 14 April 1649
Jerzy Tyszkiewicz9 December 1649 – 17 January 1656
Jan Karol Dowgiałło Zawisza16 October 1656 – 9 March 1661
Jerzy Białłozor21 November 1661 – 17 May 1665
Aleksander Kazimierz Sapieha18 July 1667 – 22 May 1671
Mikołaj Stefan Pac22 May 1672 – 8 May 1684
Aleksander Kotowicz9 April 1685 – 30 November 1686
Konstanty Kazimierz Brzostowski24 November 1687 – 24 October 1722
Maciej Ancuta24 October 1722 – 18 January 1723
Karol Piotr Pancerzyński11 September 1724 – 19 February 1729
Michał Jan Zienkowicz2 October 1730 – 23 January 1762
Ignacy Jakub Massalski29 March 1762 – 28 June 1794
Jan Nepomucen Kossakowski9 August 1798 – 26 August 1808
Hieronim Stroynowski26 September 1814 – 5 August 1815
Andrzej Benedykt Klangiewicz14 December 1840 – 27 December 1841
Wacław Żyliński3 July 1848 – 27 October 1856
Adam Stanisław Krasiński27 September 1858 – 15 March 1883
Karol Hryniewiecki15 March 1883 – 30 December 1889
Antoni Franciszek Audziewicz30 December 1889 – 10 June 1895
Stefan Aleksander Zwierowicz21 July 1897 – 2 September 1902
Edward von Ropp9 November 1903 – 25 July 1917
Jurgis Matulaitis-Matulevičius (Jerzy Matulewicz)23 October 1918 – 14 July 1925
Metropolitan Archbishops – Archdiocese period
Jan Cieplak14 December 1925 – 17 February 1926width=40%nominated, died before taking the office
Romuald Jałbrzykowski24 June 1926 – 19 June 1955imprisoned by Germans 19421944, from 1945 seated in Białystok
Julijonas Steponavičius7 February 1989 – 18 June 1991
Audrys Juozas Bačkis24 December 1991 – 5 April 2013cardinal
Gintaras Grušas23 April 2013 – present

Auxiliary bishops

Notes and References

  1. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dviln.html "Archdiocese of Vilnius"
  2. http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/viln0.htm "Metropolitan Archdiocese of Vilnius"
  3. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bskum.html "Bishop Theodorus Skuminowicz (Skumin)"
  4. http://www.gcatholic.org/hierarchy/data/bishops-SK.htm#58143 "Bishop Theodorus Skuminowicz"