Pope Francis accepted the resignation of the Catholic Archbishop-Metropolitan of Minsk-Mogilev Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz reports RIA Novosti .
The new apostolic administrator of the archdiocese is Kazimir Velikoselets. Prior to that, he was an assistant bishop of the Pinsk diocese of Belarus.
On December 24, Kondrusevich, who returned to Belarus after the ban on entry was lifted, named a > expulsion from its borders with your cross. According to the head of the Belarusian Catholics, before his Belarusian passport was canceled, he was forced to leave for Poland due to health problems.
The President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko promised to solve the problem with the entry of the 75-year-old Metropolitan after having met with the representative of the Pope Apostolic Nuncio in Great Britain, Archbishop Claudio Gugerotti a >. At the same time, earlier the politician accused Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz of intending to destroy the country. Lukashenko said that the priest spied against Minsk on behalf of the Polish authorities.
At the end of August, the head of the Belarusian Catholics condemned the actions of the OMON, which locked the protesters in the Red Church in Minsk during the dispersal of the protest action. Later, Kondrusevich’s Belarusian passport was canceled and included in the list of those prohibited from entering.