Vitas (bishop)

Servant of God

Vitas of Poland

OP
17th-century portrait of Vitas
BornWit
unknown
Kingdom of Poland
Diedc. 1269

Vitas, O.P., or Wit (died c. 1269) was a Polish Dominican friar from the Kraków convent and the first bishop in Lithuania (1253–1255). Though venerated as a "blessed" by the Order of Preachers, his cause for beatification is still within preliminary stages.

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