death_date consecration nationality article_title term birth_date archdiocese term_end church death_place title term_start diocese name consecrated_by birth_place type appointed successor ordination
03 december 1959 13 july 1919 lithuanian juozapas skvireckas
 1926-1959 18 september 1873 kaunas 3 december 1959 roman catholic austria archbishop of kaunas 13 may 1926 kaunas juozapas skvireckas antanas karosas pašilaičiai , vilnius , russian empire archbishop 5 april 1926 vincentas sladkevičius 24 june 1899
juozapas skvireckas

juozapas skvireckas -lrb- 1873 -- 1959 -rrb- was a lithuanian archbishop of kaunas -lrb- 1926 -- 1959 -rrb- .
in 1911 -- 1937 he translated the bible into the lithuanian language .
during the occupation of the baltic states by the nazis , skvireckas and his assistant , bishop vincentas brizgys , welcomed the nazis .
skvireckas would provide chaplains for lithuanian-manned nazi auxiliary units .
in later years however skvireckas issued multiple protests to nazi authorities regarding the conditions of the catholic church in lithuania .
he also sent reports to vatican and since 1942 started receiving instructions from papal office .
in 1944 , skvireckas , brizgys and over 200 other lithuanian clergymen left kaunas with retreating german forces , and went into exile .
he would settle in austria , where he died in 1959 .
after his death , the post of an -lrb- arch -rrb- bishop of kaunas was vacant till 1989 .
