Janusz Kaleta

Janusz Kaleta (born on October 11, 1964 in Łazy, Poland) was a Roman Catholic bishop who was laicized in 2016.

He was ordained a priest in 1989 in the Diocese of Tarnów. From 7 July 1999 is the Apostolic Administrator of Atyrau, Kazakhstan. On September 15, 2006 was elevated to the episcopate by Pope Benedict XVI appointed him titular bishop. Kaleta worked pastorally in Nowy Wiśnicz and Bochnia. After studying theology in Innsbruck in 1997 obtained a doctorate in moral theology, and his work devoted to issues of bioethics. In 1999 he moved to pastoral work in Kazakhstan. On July 7, 1999 John Paul II created the country's Apostolic Administration of Atyrau, the first with their manager was appointed Father Kaleta. This church subdivision includes western regions of Kazakhstan bordering the Caspian Sea. In an area of over 736 thousand km², and thus more than twice higher than the Polish, lives more than 2.2 million people, including more than 2.5 thousand. Catholics, in a large proportion of foreigners, working in oil companies. Consecrated on November 23, 2006 at St. Peter at the Vatican by Cardinal Secretary of State and retired dean of the College of Cardinals Angelo Sodano. Co-consecrating bishops were Bishop Wiktor Skworc and Bishop Henry Theophilus Howaniec, OFM. On February 5, 2011 Pope Benedict XVI appointed him bishop of Karaganda, while leaving him temporarily as an apostolic administrator of Atyrau. He resigned as Bishop of Karaganda on July 15, 2014, and was laicized June 15, 2016.