Rolandas Makrickas (born 31 January 1972) is a Lithuanian Catholic cardinal who has served as coadjutor archpriest of the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore since 2024.

[2] He entered Kaunas Priest Seminary in 1990, the second year it operated, and beginning in 1991 lived at the St. Casimir Lithuanian College in Rome while studying philosophy and theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University.

[1] He studied at the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy from 2003 to 2006[citation needed] and joined the diplomatic service of the Holy See on 1 July 2006 and fulfilled assignments first in Bolivia,[2] in Georgia where he witnessed the destruction of the Russo-Georgian War,[2] and in Sweden where the nunciature was responsible for several northern countries.

For two years, he was chargé d'affaires in Gabon and counselor in Congo,[3] where he joined in the Church's delivery of social services and managed a construction project.

[2] On 10 August 2019, he joined the Section for General Affairs of the Secretariat of State in Rome[1] as head of administration, the first non-Italian to hold that position.