Vincentas Borisevičius

Vincentas Borisevičius (23 November 1887 – 18 November 1946) was a Lithuanian Roman Catholic bishop of the Telšiai Diocese. The process of his beatification was initiated in 1990.

Born to a family of well-off Lithuanian farmers, Borisevičius was educated at the boys' gymnasium of the Church of St. Catherine in Saint Petersburg, Sejny Priest Seminary, and University of Fribourg in Switzerland. In 1913, he became a vicar and prison chaplain to Kalvarija. During World War I, he evacuated to Minsk where he worked as a chaplain of the 10th Army of the Russian Imperial Army. Upon return to Lithuania in 1918, he became chaplain and religion teacher at the Marijampolė Gymnasium. In 1922, he moved to teach moral and pastoral theology as well as social sciences at the Sejny Priest Seminary. In 1926, Justinas Staugaitis, the first bishop of the newly created Diocese of Telšiai, invited Borisevičius to help him organize the diocese and the new priest seminary in Telšiai. The seminary was officially opened on 4 October 1927 and Borisevičius was its rector until it was closed in 1940 in the aftermath of the Soviet occupation of Lithuania. In 1940, he became auxiliary bishop of Telšiai and a titular bishop of Lysias. After the death of Bishop Staugaitis on 7 July 1943, Borisevičius succeeded him as the new bishop of Telšiai.

Accused of various anti-Soviet activities, including supporting Lithuanian partisans, Borisevičius was arrested by the NKVD in December 1945 and again in February 1946. On 28 August, he was convicted of being a traitor under Article 58 of the Soviet Penal Code and sentenced to death. He was executed in November 1946 and buried in a mass grave at the Tuskulėnai Manor in Vilnius. His remains were found in 1996 and were reburied at the Telšiai Cathedral in 1999.