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by Stefano Caprio The priest died from the coronavirus. Born in Grodno, between Belarus and Poland, he arrived in Russia in 1991, rebuilding the fabric of Catholic communities, after decades of atheism. Rome (AsiaNews) - The Catholic Church in Russia has lost one of its most important representatives, crushed by Covid: The Belarusian Msgr. Jerzy Steckiewicz, who died in the night between December 12 and 13. He was dean of the pastoral territory and parish priest of St. Adalbert in Kaliningrad, the Russian enclave of East Prussia. Kaliningrad is the ex-Könisberg, city of Immanuel Kant, annexe...

By Stefano Caprio The Catholic Church in Russia has lost one of its most important representatives, crushed by Covid: The Belarusian Msgr. Jerzy Steckiewicz, who died in the night between December 12 and 13. He was dean of the pastoral territory and parish priest of St. Adalbert in Kaliningrad, the Russian enclave of East Prussia. Kaliningrad is the ex-Könisberg, city of Immanuel Kant, annexed to the Soviet Union since 1945, at the end of World War II. The area, inhabited by many citizens of Polish and Lithuanian origin, has a dense network of Catholic communities, in cities and small towns ...