Kęstutis Kėvalas
The Most Rev. Mons. Kęstutis Kėvalas (17 February 1972 in Kaunas) is the current Metropolitan Archbishop of Kaunas.
His Excellency, The Most Rev. Mons. Kęstutis Kėvalas | |
|---|---|
| Metropolitan Archbishop of Kaunas | |
 Kėvalas in 2018 | |
| Church | Roman Catholic |
| Diocese | Kaunas |
| Appointed | 19 February 2020 |
| Predecessor | Lionginas Virbalas |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 29 June 2000 by Sigitas Tamkevičius |
| Consecration | 27 September 2012 by Sigitas Tamkevičius |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 17 February 1972 |
| Nationality |  Lithuanian |
| Coat of arms | .svg.png.webp) |
Biography
Kęstutis Kėvalas studied from 1990 to 1992 at Kaunas University of Technology. In 1993 he entered the Kaunas Priest Seminary, where he studied until 1997 Catholic theology and philosophy. He then continued his studies at the Seminary of St. Mary in Baltimore, where he earned a licentiate in theology. On 29 June 2000, he was ordained at the Cathedral Basilica of St Peter and St Paul.
From 2001 to 2005 he was the head of the Archdiocesan Seminary Propaedeuticum and diocesan youth minister. In 2003 Kevalas started graduate doctoral studies in moral theology at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, where he completed a doctorate in 2008. Kevalas was nominated the Spiritual Priest of Kaunas Priest Seminary in 2005.
On 8 February 2010 he became the program director of Radio Maria in Lithuania.
On 27 September 2012 Pope Benedict XVI appointed him titular bishop of Abziri and auxiliary bishop of Kaunas, and he was ordained as bishop by Sigitas Tamkevičius, Archbishop of Kaunas (later created cardinal in 2019). On 20 April 2017 he was appointed as Coadjutor Bishop of Telšiai, then succeeded as bishop on 18 September.
On 19 February 2020 he was promoted as Metropolitan Archbishop of Kaunas. The ingress to the Cathedral Basilica of apostles St. Peter and St. Paul of Kaunas took place on 24 June 2020.
