Vincentas Borisevičius, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Vincentas Borisevičius

Lithuanian priest

Date of Birth: 23-Nov-1887

Place of Birth: Bebrininkai, Lithuania

Date of Death: 18-Nov-1946

Profession: Catholic priest, university teacher

Nationality: Lithuania

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Vincentas Borisevičius

  • Vincentas Borisevicius (23 November 1887 – 18 November 1946) was a Lithuanian Roman Catholic bishop of the Telšiai Diocese.
  • The process of his canonization was initiated in 1990. Born to a family of well-off Lithuanian farmers, Borisevicius was educated at the boys' gymnasium of the Church of St.
  • Catherine in Saint Petersburg, Sejny Priest Seminary, and University of Fribourg in Switzerland.
  • In 1913, he became a vicar and prison chaplain to Kalvarija.
  • During World War I, he evacuated to Minsk where he worked as a chaplain of the 10th Army of the Russian Imperial Army.
  • Upon return to Lithuania in 1918, he became chaplain and religion teacher at the Marijampole Gymnasium.
  • In 1922, he moved to teach moral and pastoral theology as well as social sciences at the Sejny Priest Seminary.
  • In 1926, Justinas Staugaitis, the first bishop of the newly created Diocese of Telšiai, invited Borisevicius to help him organize the diocese and the new priest seminary in Telšiai.
  • The seminary was officially opened on 4 October 1927 and Borisevicius was its rector until it was closed in 1940 in the aftermath of the Soviet occupation of Lithuania.
  • In 1940, he became auxiliary bishop of Telšiai and a titular bishop of Lysias.
  • After the death of Bishop Staugaitis on 7 July 1943, Borisevicius succeeded him as the new bishop of Telšiai. Accused of various anti-Soviet activities, including supporting Lithuanian partisans, Borisevicius was arrested by the NKVD in December 1945 and again in February 1946.
  • On 28 August, he was convicted of being a traitor under Article 58 of the Soviet Penal Code and sentenced to death.
  • He was executed in November 1946 and buried in a mass grave at the Tuskulenai Manor in Vilnius.
  • His remains were found in 1996 and were reburied at the Telšiai Cathedral in 1999.

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