Kęstutis Kėvalas

His Excellency

Kęstutis Kėvalas
His Excellency; Kęstutis Kėvalas
Archbishop of Kaunas
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	February 17, 1972 (age 52); Kaunas, Lithuania
Nationality	Lithuanian
Coat of arms

Kęstutis Kėvalas (February 17, 1972 in Kaunas) is the current Archbishop of Kaunas .

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 September 27, 2012 the 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). In 20 April 2017, he was appointed as Coadjutor Bishop of Telšiai, and then succeeded as bishop in 18 September.

In 19 February 2020, he was promoted as Archbishop of Kaunas, however due to the outbreak of COVID-19, his installation is postponed until further notice.