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The Lithuanian order of precedence is a nominal and symbolic hierarchy of important positions within the Government of Lithuania. Administered by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,^[1] the hierarchy does not determine the order of succession for the office of President of the Republic of Lithuania, which is instead specified by the Constitution of Lithuania.

Lithuanian order of precedence[]

1. President of Lithuania (Gitanas Nausėda)
2. Speaker of the Seimas (Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen)
3. Prime Minister of Lithuania (Ingrida Šimonytė)
4. President of the Constitutional Court of Lithuania ()
5. Former Presidents of Lithuania:
   1. Vytautas Landsbergis
   2. Valdas Adamkus
   3. Rolandas Paksas
   4. Artūras Paulauskas
   5. Dalia Grybauskaitė
6. Signatories of the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania, including:
   1. Chair of Liberal Movement Political Group Eugenijus Gentvilas
   2. MEP Laima Andrikienė
   3. MEP Algirdas Saudargas
   4. Member of the Seimas Kęstutis Glaveckas
   5. Member of the Seimas Rasa Juknevičienė
   6. Member of the Seimas Emanuelis Zingeris
   7. Former Speaker of the Seimas Česlovas Juršėnas
   8. Former Prime Minister Kazimira Prunskienė
   9. Former Prime Minister Albertas Šimėnas
   10. Former Prime Minister Gediminas Vagnorius
   11. Former Prime Minister Aleksandras Abišala
7. First Deputy Speaker of the Seimas (Rima Baškienė)
8. Ministers of the Republic of Lithuania:
   1. Minister of Environment (Kęstutis Navickas)
   2. Minister of Energy (Žygimantas Vaičiūnas)
   3. Minister of Finance (Vilius Šapoka)
   4. Minister of National Defence ()
   5. Minister of Culture (Liana Ruokytė-Jonsson)
   6. Minister of Social Security and Labour (Linas Kukuraitis)
   7. Minister of Transport and Communications (Rokas Masiulis)
   8. Minister of Health (Aurelijus Veryga)
   9. Minister of Education and Science (Jurgita Petrauskienė)
   10. Minister of Justice (Elvinas Jankevičius)
   11. Minister of Economy (Virginijus Sinkevičius)
   12. Minister of Foreign Affairs (Linas Linkevičius)
   13. Minister of the Interior (Eimutis Misiūnas)
   14. Minister of Agriculture (Giedrius Surplys)
9. Foreign Ambassadors, accredited to the Republic of Lithuania (by date of presentation of credentials except Nuncio who is first)
   1. Holy See (Pedro López Quintana)
   2. Sweden ()
   3. Germany ()
   4. France ()
   5. Latvia ()
   6. Denmark ()
   7. Canada ()
   8. United Kingdom (Claire Lawrence)
   9. Italy ()
   10. Norway ()
   11. Finland ()
   12. Turkey ()
   13. Czech Republic ()
   14. United States (Anne Hall)
   15. China ()
   16. Poland (Urszula Doroszewska)
   17. Estonia (Jana Vanaveski)
   18. Russia ()
   19. Romania ()
   20. Ukraine ()
   21. Belarus ()
   22. Kazakhstan ()
   23. Georgia ()
   24. Japan ()
   25. Netherlands ()
   26. Hungary ()
   27. Spain ()
   28. Sovereign Military Order of Malta ()
   29. Greece ()
   30. Ireland ()
   31. Moldova ()
   32. Azerbaijan (vacant)
   33. Armenia (Tigran Mkrtchyan)
   34. Croatia ()
   35. Israel ()
10. President of the Supreme Court of Lithuania ()
11. President of the Supreme Administrative Court of Lithuania ()
12. Deputy Speakers of the Seimas:
    1. Irena Degutienė
    2. Gediminas Kirkilas
    3. Arvydas Nekrošius
    4. Irena Šiaulienė
13. Leader of the Opposition of the Seimas (vacant)
14. Chairs of the Committees of the Seimas:
    1. Chair of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (Juozas Bernatonis)
    2. Chair of the Committee on Audit (Ingrida Šimonytė)
    3. Chair of the Committee on Budget and Finance (Stasys Jakeliūnas)
    4. Chair of the Committee on Economics (Rimantas Sinkevičius)
    5. Chair of the Committee on Rural Affairs ()
    6. Chair of the Committee on Culture (Ramūnas Karbauskis)
    7. Chair of the Committee on National Security and Defence ()
    8. Chair of the Committee on Social Affairs and Labour (Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė)
    9. Chair of the Committee on Health Affairs ()
    10. Chair of the Committee on Education and Science ()
    11. Chair of the Committee on Legal Affairs ()
    12. Chair of the Committee on State Administration and Local Authorities ()
    13. Chair of the Committee on Human Rights ()
15. Chairs of the Political Groups of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania:
    1. Homeland Union - Lithuanian Christian Democrats Political Group (Gabrielius Landsbergis)
    2. Lithuanian Social Democratic Labour Political Group (Andrius Palionis)
    3. Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania – Christian Families Alliance Political Group (Rita Tamašunienė)
    4. Lithuanian Social Democratic Party Political Group (Juozas Olekas)
    5. (
    6. Order and Justice Political Group ()
16. Members of the Seimas
17. Members of the European Parliament representing Lithuania:
    1. Petras Auštrevičius
    2. Zigmantas Balčytis
    3. Vilija Blinkevičiūtė
    4. Antanas Guoga
    5. Valentinas Mazuronis
    6. Bronis Ropė
    7. Valdemar Tomaševski
    8. Viktor Uspaskich
18. The Seimas Ombudsman ()
19. The highest hierarch of the Catholic Church in Lithuania (Cardinal Audrys Juozas Bačkis)
20. (gen. ltn. )
21. Chairman of the Board of the Bank of Lithuania ()
22. ()
23. Auditor General at National Audit Office of Lithuania (Arūnas Dulkys)
24. Members of the Constitutional Court of Lithuania:
    4. Danutė Jočienė
25. Judges of the Supreme Court of Lithuania
26. Chancellor of the Office of the President of the Republic of Lithuania ()
27. Chancellor of the Seimas ()
28. Chancellor of the Government ()
29. Director of the State Security Department of Lithuania ()
30. Director of the Special Investigation Service ()
31. Chairman of the (Algimantas Valantinas)
32. Vice-Ministers of the Republic of Lithuania
33. Chancellors of the ministries of the Republic of Lithuania
34. City Mayor (at city event)
35. President of Lithuanian Academy of Sciences ()
36. President of Lithuanian Bishops' Conference (Gintaras Grušas)
37. Highest Authorities of traditional religious confessions:
    1. Evangelical Lutheran Church of Lithuania (Mindaugas Sabutis)
    2. Lithuanian Evangelical Reformed Church (Tomas Šernas)
    3. Greek Catholic Church ()
    4. Jewish Religious Community) ()
    5. Karaite Religious Community) ()
    6. Sunni Muftiate of Lithuania ()
    7. Eastern Orthodoxy (, Metropolitan of Vilnius and Lithuania)
    8. Religious Community of Old Believers ()
38. Ambassadors of the Republic of Lithuania
39. Police Commissioner General of Lithuania ()
40. Head of the Lithuanian State Border Guard Service (gen. )
41. Director of the (gen. )
42. Head of the Public Security Service (gen. )
43. Equal Opportunities Ombudsperson of Lithuania ()
44. Children's rights Ombudsperson of Lithuania ()
45. Former Speakers of the Seimas:
    1. Viktoras Muntianas
    2. Arūnas Valinskas
    3. Vydas Gedvilas
    4. Loreta Graužinienė
46. Former Prime Ministers of the Republic of Lithuania:
    1. Adolfas Šleževičius
47. Chairman of the ()
48. Chairman of the Chief Official Ethics Commission of the Republic of Lithuania ()
49. Rectors of the High Schools – Graduate Universities
50. Advisers to the President of the Republic of Lithuania
51. Advisers to the Speaker of the Seimas
52. Advisers to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Lithuania
53. Chiefs of the main branches of the Lithuanian Armed Forces:
    1. Commander of the Lithuanian Land Force (brig. gen. Valdemaras Rupšys)
    2. Commander of the Lithuanian Air Force (plk. )
    3. Commander of the Lithuanian Navy (jūrų kpt. )
54. Chief of the (gen. mjr. )
55. Representative of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania in the European Court of Human Rights ()
56. Director of the Department of State and Diplomatic Protocol of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ()
57. President of the Association of Local Authorities in Lithuania ()
58. Mayors of other cities of Lithuania
59. Government representatives in the counties
60. Chargé d‘Affaires of foreign states

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