Romualdas KrikÅ¡ÄiÅ«nas
Romualdas Krikščiūnas ( born July 18, 1930 in Kaunas, Lithuania; † 2 November 2010) was Roman Catholic bishop and apostolic administrator in Panevėžys.
Life
Romualdas Krikščiūnas studied in times of communist rule theology and philosophy at the seminary of Kaunas. He received 12 September 1954, the ordination. After his vicariate in Kaunas he graduated at the Lateran University in Rome from 1959 to 1963 a doctoral degree in canon law.
From 1963 to 2008 he worked in the diocesan curia of the Diocese of Vilkaviškis. Krikščiūnas represented from 1963 to 1967 the concerns of Lithuania in the Second Vatican Council, and later in the Roman Catholic Church in Lithuania. From 1969 to 2003 he was Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Kaunas. From 1973 to 2007 he was professor and chancellor at the local theological seminary.
Pope Paul VI. 1969 appointed him titular bishop of Amaia and appointed him auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Kaunas and support of Bishop Juozapas Matulaitis - Labukas and Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Vilkaviškis. The Episcopal Ordination at the Cathedral of Kaunas donated to him on December 21, 1969 Bishop Juozas Matulaitis - Labukas, Apostolic Administrator in Kaunus; Co-consecrators were Bishop Julijans Vaivods, Administrator of Riga, and Bishop Juozapas Pletkus, Prelate of Klaipeda. 1973 he was appointed Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Panevėžys, at a difficult time for the Lithuanian church of Soviet influence.
KGB activities
Krikščiūnas had been recruited for intelligence activities in the districts of Lithuania's exiled clergy by the KGB before the beginning of his studies. As an agent, sun, he delivered, as well as his fellow student Viktoras Butkus, while studying reports to the Soviet authorities.
His resignation from the office of bishop in 1983 granted by Pope John Paul II after his subordinates had become suspicious. Officially health reasons and political pressure the Communist government were given.