Bishop Juozas Matulaitis †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Kaišiadorys, Lithuania

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
8 Mar 1936		Born
25 Mar 1964	28.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Kaišiadorys, Lithuania
10 Mar 1989	53.0	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Kaišiadorys, Lithuania
10 Mar 1989	53.0	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Sicilibba
18 Mar 1989	53.0	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Sicilibba
24 Dec 1991	55.7	Appointed	Bishop of Kaišiadorys, Lithuania
11 Feb 2012	75.9	Retired	Bishop of Kaišiadorys, Lithuania
8 Nov 2026	90.6	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Kaišiadorys, Lithuania

MicroData Summary
Juozas Matulaitis
Bishop Juozas Matulaitis
(born 8 Mar 1936, died 8 Nov 2026)
Bishop Emeritus of Kaišiadorys

Ad Limina - June 2006: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Užgireliai, Diocese of Kaišiadorys
Ordained Priest Cathedral, Kaunas, Archdiocese of Kaunas
Ordained Bishop SS. Pierre et Paul, Kaunas, Archdiocese of Kaunas
Death Place Kaišiadorys, Diocese of Kaišiadorys
Buried Place (Original) Crypt, Cathedral, Kaišiadorys, Diocese of Kaišiadorys

a priest for 62.6 years
a bishop for 37.6 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Petras Maželis †
Bishop of Telšiai
Principal Consecrator:
Vincentas Cardinal Sladkevičius, M.I.C. †
Archbishop of Kaunas
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Julijonas Steponavičius †
Archbishop of Vilnius
Bishop Juozas Preikšas †
Titular Bishop of Egnatia
Bishop Vladas Michelevičius †
Titular Bishop of Thapsus

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Vincentas Cardinal Sladkevičius, M.I.C. † (1957)
Archbishop of Kaunas
Bishop Bl. Teofilius Matulionis † (1929)
Bishop of Kaišiadorys
Bishop Anton Malecki † (1926)
Titular Bishop of Dionysiana
Bishop Michel-Joseph Bourguignon d’Herbigny, S.J. † (1926)
Titular Bishop of Ilium
Archbishop Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli † (1917)
Titular Archbishop of Sardes
Pope Benedict XV (1907)
(Giacomo Giambattista della Chiesa †)
Pope Pius X (1884)
(St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto †)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond (Jean-François) Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Pace
Pope Clement XIII (1743)
(Carlo della Torre Rezzonico †)
Pope Benedict XIV (1724)
(Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini †)
Pope Benedict XIII (1675)
(Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. †)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Pudenziana
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop of Bologna
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Archbishop Emeritus of Bari (-Canosa)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Cardinal-Priest of San Bartolomeo all’Isola
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †
Titular Patriarch of Constantinople

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Algirdas Jurevičius (2018)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Užgireliai, Diocese of Kaišiadorys
Ordained Priest	Cathedral, Kaunas, Archdiocese of Kaunas
Ordained Bishop	SS. Pierre et Paul, Kaunas, Archdiocese of Kaunas
Death Place	Kaišiadorys, Diocese of Kaišiadorys
Buried Place (Original)	Crypt, Cathedral, Kaišiadorys, Diocese of Kaišiadorys

External Link(s):

VIAF: 3816154260780524480004
WikiData: Q1713717

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 115, Number 10,245
r: Bollettino, 11 Feb 2012
b: Annuario Pontificio, Year 2011, Page 343
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 159, Deceased Cardinals (back)
d/bpd/c1/opd: CB, 8 Nov 2026

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