# Bishop of Vilnius

Bishops of Vilnius diocese from 1388 and archdiocese (archdiocese of Vilnius) from 1925:
Bishops suffragans – diocese period :
| Andrzej Jastrzębiec OFM | 1388 – 14 November 1398 |
| Jakub Plichta OFM | 5 May 1399 – 7 February 1407 |
| Mikołaj Gorzkowski | January 1408 – 1414 |
| Piotr Krakowczyk | 15 February 1415 – 22 December 1422 |
| Matthias of Trakai | 4 May 1422 – 9 May 1453 |
| Mikołaj z Sołecznik | 17 October 1453 – 29 September 1467 |
| Jan I | 4 May 1468 – 1481 |
| Andrzej II | 27 August 1481 – 1491 |
| Wojciech Tabor | 1 April 1492 – 27 March 1507 |
| Albert Radziwiłł | 10 September 1507 – 19 April 1519 |
| John of the Lithuanian Dukes | 23 September 1519 – 15 March 1536 |
| Paweł (prince) Holszański | 15 March 1536 – 4 September 1555 |
| Walerian Protasewicz | 10 April 1556 – 31 December 1579 |
| Jerzy Radziwiłł | 31 December 1579 – 9 August 1591 |
| Benedykt Woyna | 31 July 1600 – 22 October 1615 |
| Eustachy Wołłowicz | 18 May 1616 – 19 January 1630 |
| Abraham Woyna | 24 March 1631 – 14 April 1649 |
| Jerzy Tyszkiewicz | 9 December 1649 – 17 January 1656 |
| Jan Karol Dowgiałło Zawisza | 16 October 1656 – 9 March 1661 |
| Jerzy Białłozor | 21 November 1661 – 17 May 1665 |
| Aleksander Kazimierz Sapieha | 18 July 1667 – 22 May 1671 |
| Mikołaj Stefan Pac | 22 May 1672 – 8 May 1684 |
| Aleksander Kotowicz | 9 April 1685 – 30 November 1686 |
| Konstanty Kazimierz Brzostowski | 24 November 1687 – 24 October 1722 |
| Maciej Ancuta | 24 October 1722 – 18 January 1723 |
| Karol Piotr Pancerzyński | 11 September 1724 – 19 February 1729 |
| Michał Jan Zienkowicz | 2 October 1730 – 23 January 1762 |
| Ignacy Jakub Massalski | 29 March 1762 – 28 June 1794 |
| Jan Nepomucen Kossakowski | 9 August 1798 – 26 August 1808 |
| Hieronim Stroynowski | 26 September 1814 – 5 August 1815 |
| Andrzej Benedykt Kłągiewicz | 14 December 1840 – 27 December 1841 |
| Wacław Żyliński | 3 July 1848 – 27 October 1856 |
| Adam Stanisław Krasiński | 27 September 1858 – 15 March 1883 |
| Karol Hryniewiecki | 15 March 1883 – 30 December 1889 |
| Antoni Franciszek Audziewicz | 30 December 1889 – 10 June 1895 |
| Stefan Aleksander Zwierowicz | 21 July 1897 – 2 September 1902 |
| Edward Ropp | 9 November 1903 – 25 July 1917 |
| Jurgis Matulaitis-Matulevičius (Jerzy Matulewicz) | 23 October 1918 – 14 July 1925 |
| Metropolitan Archbishops – Archdiocese period |||
| Jan Cieplak | 14 December 1925 – 17 February 1926 | nominated, died before taking the office |
| Romuald Jałbrzykowski | 24 June 1926 – 19 June 1955 | imprisoned by Germans 1942 – 1944, from 1945 seated in Białystok |
| Julijonas Steponavičius | 7 February 1989 – 18 June 1991 | apostolic administrator of Vilnius since 8 December 1957 |
| Audrys Juozas Bačkis | 24 December 1991 – 5 April 2013 | cardinal |
| Gintaras Grušas | 23 April 2013 – present |

## Auxiliary bishops

* Cyprian Wiliński (Wiliski), O.P. (3 Mar 1572 – 1594)
* Nicolas Pac (Mikalojus Pacas)(Mikołaj Pac) (9 Sep 1602 – 29 Mar 1610)
* Abraham Wojna (Abraomas Voina) (25 May 1611 – 20 Jul 1626 Appointed, Bishop of Žemaičiai)
* Jerzy Tyszkiewicz (Jurgis Tiškevičius) (17 May 1627 – 19 Dec 1633 Appointed, Bishop of Žemaičiai)
* Stanislaw Nieborski (12 Jun 1634 – 27 May 1644)
* Hieronim Wladysław Sanguszko, S.J. (12 Dec 1644 – 31 May 1655)
* Theodorus Skuminowicz (Skumin) (12 Aug 1652 – 24 Sep 1668)
* Aleksander Kazimierz Sapieha (2 Aug 1655 – 12 Jan 1660 Appointed, Bishop of Žemaičiai)
* Gothard Jan Tyzenhaus (Gotthard Johann von Tiesenhausen) (5 Apr 1661 – 17 Sep 1668)
* Mikolaj Słupski (3 Jun 1669 – 1691)
* Vladislaus Silnicki (15 Feb 1683 – 8 Feb 1692)
* Jonas Jeronimas Krišpinas (30 Aug 1694 – 19 Sep 1695)
* Jan Mikolaj Zgierski (2 Jan 1696 – 25 Jan 1706)
* Wojciech Izdebski (18 Jun 1696 – 3 Nov 1702)
* Aleksander Mikolaj Horain (15 Sep 1704 – 23 Dec 1711)
* Maciej Józef Ancuta (1 Oct 1710 – 14 Jun 1717 Appointed, Coadjutor Bishop of Vilnius)
* Karol Piotr Pancerzyński (5 Oct 1712 – 31 May 1721 Appointed, Bishop of Smoleńsk on 11 Sep 1724)
* Bogusław Korwin Gosiewski (20 Apr 1722 – 29 Jan 1725)
* Georgius Casimirus Ancuta (27 Sep 1723 – 26 Sep 1737)
* Antoni Józef Żółkowski (7 Dec 1744 – 19 Jan 1763)
* Tomasz Ignacy Zienkowicz (21 Jul 1755 – 19 Nov 1781)
* Józef Kazimierz Kossakowski (13 Mar 1775 – 17 Sep 1781 Appointed, Bishop of Inflanty)
* Jan Stefan Giedroyć (22 Aug 1763 – 22 Apr 1765)
* Tadeusz Benedykt Feliks Towiański, O.F.M. Conv. (1 Dec 1766 - )
* Stanislaw Jan Siestrzencewicz Bohusz (12 Jul 1773 – 11 Dec 1783)
* Franciszek Alojzy Junosza Gzowski (23 Sep 1782 – 1786)
* Piotr Aleksander Samson Toczyłowski (23 Sep 1782 – 14 Dec 1793)
* David Pilchowski (1 Jun 1795 – 22 Dec 1803)
* Jerzy Połubiński (27 Jun 1796 – 1801)
* Ignacy Houwalt (20 Aug 1804 – 5 May 1807)
* Andrzej Chołoniewski (20 Aug 1804 – 1819)
* Nikodem Puzyna (26 Sep 1814 – 22 Oct 1819)
* Tadeusz Kundzicz (10 Jul 1815 – 15 Jan 1829)
* Andrzej Benedykt Kłągiewicz (15 Mar 1830, Appointed Bishop of Vilnius)
* Jan Cywiński (17 Dec 1840 – 17 Nov 1846)
* Kazimierz Roch Dmochowski (17 Dec 1840 – 3 Jul 1848)
* Kazimierz Mikołaj Michalkiewicz (12 Jan 1923 – 16 Feb 1940)
* Mečislovas Reinys (18 Jul 1940 – 8 Nov 1953)
* Władysław Suszyński (19 Jan 1948 Appointed, Apostolic Administrator of Vilnius on 3 Jul 1968)
* Juozas Tunaitis (8 May 1991 – 4 Mar 2010)
* Jonas Algimantas Boruta, S.J. (28 May 1997 – 5 Jan 2002)
* Edward Ozorowski (31 Jan 1979 – 5 Jun 1991)
* Arūnas Poniškaitis (5 Feb 2010)