Igor Kovalevsky
Igor Leonidovich Kovalevsky (born 5 August 1965, Kharkiv province, USSR, now Ukraine) is a Catholic priest, general secretary of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of Russia, the administrator parish of Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral in Moscow.
Biography
Kovalevsky's family has Polish and Ukrainian roots. He graduated from high school in the Crimea, after graduation went to Moscow, where graduated from the Moscow State Technical University and continued his studies at the Mechanics and Mathematics Faculty of Moscow State University. Kovalevsky worked at the scientific production association "Energy" (Korolev, Moscow region). In 1997 he was ordained a deacon in the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Saint Petersburg.
In 1998, Kovalevsky graduated from the High Catholic Seminary in Bialystok (Poland), and, after graduation, ordained a priest in the Cathedral of Moscow. As of August 2011 was Secretary-General of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of Russia, Chancellor of the Curia (the diocesan administration) Archdiocese of the Mother of God, the dean of the Central Region, member of the advisory council and the Mother of God Archdiocese priests and the administrator of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Moscow. On 16 April 2009, he became a member of the Council for Cooperation with Religious Organizations under the President of the Russian Federation. Kovalevsky is also a member of the Public Council under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.