[1] 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.

[1] He then earned a Bachelor of Sacred Theology degree at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) in 1994.

On 2 July 2010, Pope Benedict XVI named him Military Ordinary of Lithuania[3] and he was consecrated a bishop on 4 September.

[4] On 5 April 2013, Pope Francis appointed him Archbishop of Vilnius to succeed Cardinal Audrys Juozas Bačkis.