Gintaras Grušas

Gintaras Grušas (born 23 September 1961) is a Lithuanian-American Catholic prelate who has served as Archbishop of Vilnius since 2013. He was previously Bishop of the Military Ordinariate of Lithuania from 2010 to 2013.

Biography Grušas was born in Washington, D.C., on 23 September 1961. His parents had reunited only a year earlier after 16 years apart when his mother was able to leave the Soviet Union and join his father in the United States. The family relocated to California and raised their son in Agoura. He earned a BS degree in Mathematics and Information Science at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). He spent five years working as a technical consultant in marketing for IBM, which, he said, helped prepare him for the management and project-planning skills that a pastor needs.

Grušas began his preparation for the priesthood at the Franciscan University of Steubenville in Steubenville, Ohio. and he was consecrated a bishop on 4 September. He was installed there on 23 April 2013.

On 9 June 2014 he was named a member of the Vatican's Congregation for the Clergy and on 13 July 2016 of the Secretariat for Communications.

He was elected president of the Episcopal Conference of Lithuania on 28 October 2014.

On 23 October 2024, the Synod of Bishops elected Grušas a member of the Ordinary Council of the General Secretariat of the Synod.