Ladas Tulaba

Ladas Tulaba was born 1912 04 28 in Barčiai (Meteliu valsčius), died 2002 06 16 (90 years old) in Rome, Italy. Tulaba - Lithuanian Catholic priest, theologian. Doctor of Theological Sciences (on 1949 year). The Prelate since 1951. In 1934, after graduating from Vilkaviškis seminary, he was ordained a priest. In 1935 he graduated in theology at the Faculty of Theology-Philosophy of Vytautas the Great University (licenceate in theology), in 1938 – in ecclesiastical law at the Pontifical Bible Institute in Rome (licenceate). In 1938–1940, he taught the Holy Scriptures at the Vilkaviškis Priests' Seminary. In 1940, after the Soviet government closed the seminary, he was invited to teach the Holy Scriptures at the Faculty of Theology of Vytautas the Great University in Kaunas. Until 1942 he was the head of the Old and New Testament department. In 1942, he was appointed rector and teacher of the reorganized Vilnius Priests' Seminary. In 1943, after the Germans took Alfonsas. Lipniūnas to the Stutthof concentration camp, he took over the leadership of the Liberation Fund, appointed St. John's Church rector for Lithuanian affairs. Retired to Germany in 1944; appointed rector of the Lithuanian clergy of the Eichstätt priestly seminary. In 1945, he founded the Papal Lithuanian St. Kazimier' College, was its rector. In 1960, he was appointed to the Chief Commission for Emigration Affairs at Member of the St. Consistory congregation. In 1966, he was appointed apostolic pronotary. Collaborated in the Lithuanian editorial office of the Vatican Radio.