Kęstutis Kėvalas
Roman Catholic bishop
Biography
Lists
Also Viewed
The basics
Quick Facts
The details
Biography
Kęstutis Kėvalas (February 17, 1972 in Kaunas) is auxiliary Bishop 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.