Cyryl Klimowicz

Bishop Cyryl Klimowicz (Russian: Кирилл Леопольдович Климович; born November 5, 1952, in Amangeldy, near Almaty, Kazakhstan) is the Ordinary of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint Joseph at Irkutsk.

On December 4, 1999, in the Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Minsk, he was consecrated as bishop by Cardinal Kazimierz Świątek.

From 1999 to 2003 Bishop Klimowicz was Vicar General of the Minsk-Mogilev Archdiocese and rector of the Cathedral in Minsk.

On April 17, 2003, Pope John Paul II appointed him as diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Saint Joseph with the center in Irkutsk.

[3] On June 15, 2003, in Irkutsk Cathedral of the Immaculate Heart of the Mother of God, he was inaugurated as the new diocesan bishop.