Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kaunas
The Metropolitan Archdiocese of Kaunas is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Lithuania. The episcopal see is in Kaunas, the second-largest city in Lithuania. The archdiocese's motherchurch and cathedral is Kaunas Cathedral Basilica; it is also home to a Minor Basilica in a town of Šiluva, in the region of Samogitia.
Kaunas Cathedral, the mother church of the Archdiocese
Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, Varniai, cathedral of the Diocese of Samogitia until 1864
Kęstutis Kėvalas, Archbishop since 2020
Kaunas is the second-largest city in Lithuania after Vilnius, the fourth largest city in the Baltic States and an important centre of Lithuanian economic, academic, and cultural life. Kaunas was the largest city and the centre of a county in the Duchy of Trakai of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Trakai Palatinate since 1413. In the Russian Empire, it was the capital of the Kaunas Governorate from 1843 to 1915.
Image: Kauno senamiestis by Augustas Didzgalvis
Image: Kaunas Castle, Lithuania
Image: House of Perkūnas, Kaunas, Lithuania Diliff
Image: Kauno rotuse 2006 06 11