Franciszek Kareu

Franciszek Kareu, SJ was a Polish-Welsh Jesuit priest, architect, missionary and teacher in the region of modern-day Belarus. During the worldwide suppression of the Society of Jesus, with the exception of the territory of the Russian Empire, he was elected temporary vicar general of the Society of Jesus in Russia from 1799 to 1801. His careful management of this precarious institutional challenge facilitated a transition leading to the universal restoration of the order in the early 19th-century.