Jan Paul Lenga

John Paul lenga MIC ( born March 28, 1950 in Horodok, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine) is Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church and was, until February 5, 2011 Bishop of Karaganda, Kazakhstan.

Life

John Paul lenga joined the Congregation of the Congregation of the Clerics Regular of Mary of the Immaculate Conception at ( Marian ). He studied in the underground Catholic theology and received on 28 May 1980 in Vilnius secret priestly ordination.

Pope John Paul II appointed him Titular Bishop of Arba in 1991 and appointed him as Apostolic Administrator of Kazakhstan and Central Asia (former Soviet Union). He received his episcopal consecration on 28 May 1991, the Apostolic Delegate of the Russian Federation and later Cardinal Francesco Colasuonno; Were co-consecrators January Olszanski MIC, Bishop of Kamjanez - Podilskyi in Ukraine, and Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz administrator in Russia and later Archbishop of the Archdiocese of the Mother of God of Moscow.

By collecting the Governorship to the diocese of Karaganda in 1999 by Pope John Paul II, he was appointed the first bishop. 2003 he was appointed Archbishop (Personal Title ).

On February 5, 2011, Pope Benedict XVI. Lenga resignation; Reasons were not disclosed. On the same day Janusz Kaleta lenga successor as Bishop of Karaganda.