Petras Vaitiekūnas (pastor)

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Petras Vaitiekūnas (* October 17 . Jul / 29. October  1891 greg. In Kikoniai, Rajon Kupiškis ; † 22. May 1946 in Jonava ) was a Catholic priest, politician and mayor of Jonava.

Life

From 1907 to 1910 Vaitiekūnas trained as a pharmacist in Vilnius , from 1911 to 1914 he was in the Kaunas seminary , from 1917 to 1918 he studied at the Spiritual Academy in Saint Petersburg . In 1914 he worked as a subdeacon in Panevėžys , in 1915 as a deacon in Vašokėnai, a manor in Troškūnai . From 1922 was Petras Vaitiekūnas licentiate of canon law and pastor of the parish Jonava . He was later elected mayor of Jonava (1937-1940).

literature

  • Jonavos krašto žmonės . Linotipas, Jonava, 2000, pp. 183-184.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vaitiekūnas Petras . Jonava Municipal Public Library website, October 16, 2012, accessed March 1, 2017 (Lithuanian).