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    The Catholic Church in Lithuania (Lithuanian: Katalikų Bažnyčia Lietuvoje) is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of...
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    the Lithuanian census of 2021, the predominant religion in Lithuania is Christianity, with the largest confession being that of the Catholic Church (about...
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    Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern...
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  • The Chronicle of the Catholic Church in Lithuania (Lithuanian: Lietuvos katalikų bažnyčios kronika or LKB kronika) was the longest-running and best-known...
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  • The Catholic Church in Lithuania is currently entirely Latin and composed of two ecclesiastical provinces, with a total of five suffragan dioceses. the...
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    The Church of St. Matthew the Apostle and Evangelist (Lithuanian: Šv. apaštalo evangelisto Mato bažnyčia) is a Roman Catholic church in Rokiškis, Lithuania...
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    Unicki) was a particular church of the Catholic Church in the territory of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. It was created in 1595/1596 by those clergy...
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    Kaunas (redirect from Kaunas, Lithuania)
    January 2011. "The Chronicle of the Catholic Church in Lithuania. Situation of the Catholic Church in Lithuania in Soviet times". Archived from the original...
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    Great. It signified the official adoption of Catholic Christianity by Lithuania, the last pagan country in Europe. This event ended one of the most complicated...
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    The Church of St. Peter and St. Paul (Lithuanian: Šv. apaštalų Petro ir Povilo bažnyčia) is a Catholic church in Ukmergė, Lithuania. The construction...
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    St. Anne's Church (Lithuanian: Šv. Onos bažnyčia; Polish: Kościół św. Anny) is a Roman Catholic church in Vilnius' Old Town, on the right bank of the Vilnia...
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    Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) is a major archiepiscopal sui iuris ("autonomous") Eastern Catholic church that is based in Ukraine. As a particular church of...
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    Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, which was banned in 1946. The majority of the 5.5 million Latin Catholics in the Soviet Union lived in the Lithuanian, Belarusian...
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    of Lithuania proper during the 1230s and 1240s. In 1250 or 1251, during the course of internal power struggles, he was baptised as a Roman Catholic; this...
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    members of other ethnic groups. Most Lithuanians belong to the Catholic Church, while the Lietuvininkai who lived in the northern part of East Prussia prior...
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    Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Lithuania. The episcopal see is in Kaunas, the second-largest city in Lithuania...
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  • Thumbnail for Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Help of Christians, Alytus
    The Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Help of Christians (Lithuanian: Švč. Mergelės Marijos Krikščionių Pagalbos bažnyčia) is a Catholic church in Alytus...
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    The Church Of Blessed Virgin Mary, the Queen Of Angels (Lithuanian: Švč. Mergelės Marijos angelų karalienės bažnyčia), is a Roman Catholic church in Tytuvėnai...
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    Our Lady of the Gate of Dawn (category Catholic Church in Lithuania)
    Blessed Virgin Mary venerated by the faithful in the Chapel of the Gate of Dawn in Vilnius, Lithuania. The painting was historically displayed above...
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    The Church of the Holy Trinity (Lithuanian: Švč. Trejybės bažnyčia) is a Roman Catholic church in Liškiava, Lithuania. It is part of the Liškiava Monastery...
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    ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Lithuania. Established as the Diocese of Vilnius in the 14th century, it was elevated to the...
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  • permitted to use their native languages in schooling and public discourse, and Catholic churches were built in Lithuania. Latin characters replaced the Cyrillic...
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  • cathedrals in Lithuania sorted by denomination. Cathedrals of the Roman Catholic Church in Lithuania: Cathedrals of the Russian Orthodox Church: Wikimedia...
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    and Nativity BVM Catholic Church, which have been associated with Lithuanians. A number of the most architecturally significant churches of the Archdiocese...
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    The Catholic Church in the United States is part of the worldwide Catholic Church in communion with the pope. With 23 percent of the United States' population...
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    Audrys Bačkis (category 20th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Lithuania)
    Audrys Juozas Bačkis (Lithuanian: [ɐʊˈdʲrʲiːs ˈjuɔzɐs ˈbaːtɕkʲɪs]; born 1 February 1937) is a Lithuanian prelate of the Catholic Church and a cardinal since...
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    Polonization (category Ruthenians in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth)
    Church of Lithuania in the 19th century: "The 'Polonomaniacs' announced that the Catholic Church in Lithuania is a Polish church and no other national...
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  • Thumbnail for Church of the Lord's Revelation to Virgin Mary, Kretinga
    The Church of the Lord's Revelation to Virgin Mary (Lithuanian: Viešpaties Apreiškimo Švč. Mergelei Marijai bažnyčia) is a Roman Catholic church in Kretinga...
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  • Caritas Lithuania (Lithuanian: Lietuvos Caritas) is a Catholic not-for-profit social welfare and humanitarian relief organisation in Lithuania. It is a...
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    The Catholic Church in Japan is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the pope in Rome. As of 2021, there were approximately...
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