Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe Volume 36 | Issue 2 Article 2 March 2016 Greek Rite Catholicism in Lithuania: The iM ssion of Bishop Petras Būčys, 1930–1940 Regina Laukaitytė Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/ree Part of the Christianity Commons, and the Eastern European Studies Commons Recommended Citation Laukaitytė, Regina (2016) "Greek Rite Catholicism in Lithuania: The iM ssion of Bishop Petras Būčys, 1930–1940," Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe: Vol. 36: Iss. 2, Article 2. Available at: http://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/ree/vol36/iss2/2 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by Digital Commons @ George Fox University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ George Fox University. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. GREEK RITE CATHOLICISM IN LITHUANIA: THE MISSION OF BISHOP PETRAS BŪČYS, 1930–19401 By Regina Laukaitytė Regina Laukaitytė holds the position of Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Twentieth- Century History of the Lithuanian Institute of History in Vilnius. She received her Doctorate of Humanities from her alma mater, Vilnius University, in 1988. Her research interests include Catholicism, Orthodoxy, and religious minorities in Lithuania and the Lithuanian Diaspora. She is the author of numerous scholarly articles and four monographs. During the twentieth century, some Lithuanian Catholic clerics and members of religious orders were strongly engaged in projects aimed at the conversion of Russians to the Catholic faith. After 1990, in post-communist Lithuania, Greek Rite Catholicism rose from the ashes.