Igor Kovalevsky

Igor Leonidovich Kovalevsky (born 5 August 1965) is a Catholic priest, general secretary of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of Russia from 1999 to 2020, the administrator parish of Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral in Moscow, director of Caritas in the European Part of Russia.

In 1997 he was ordained a deacon in the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Saint Petersburg.

[2] Kovalevsky is a polyglot and is known to address his multinational parishioners in different languages: English, Italian, French, Polish, Lithuanian, Spanish, Ukrainian, Russian, Vietnamese and others.

As of August 2011 was Secretary-General of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of Russia,[3] Chancellor of the Curia (the diocesan administration) Archdiocese of the Mother of God,[4] the dean of the Central Region, member of the advisory council and the Mother of God Archdiocese priests and the administrator of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Moscow.

On 16 April 2009, he became a member of the Council for Cooperation with Religious Organizations under the President of the Russian Federation.