Cardinal Rolandas Makrickas, Coadjutor Archpriest of the Papal Basilica of Saint Mary Major, was born in Biržai, Lithuania, on 31 January 1972. He was ordained a priest on 20 July 1996 for the diocese of Panevėžys, and from 1996 to 2001 he was under-secretary of the Lithuanian Episcopal Conference and head of the National Committee for the Great Jubilee of 2000. He was awarded a doctorate in Ecclesiastical History from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome in 2004. He entered the Holy See Diplomatic Service on 1 July 2006, and served in the Pontifical Representations in Georgia, Sweden, the United States of America, and Gabon, and in the Section for General Affairs of the Secretariat of State. From 15 December 2021 to 19 March 2024, he was Extraordinary Commissioner for the Papal Basilica of Saint Mary Major. On 11 February 2023 he was appointed titular archbishop of Tolentino and received episcopal ordination the following 15 April, in the Basilica of Saint Mary Major in Rome, from Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State of His Holiness. On 19 March 2024, the Holy Father appointed him coadjutor archpriest, with right of succession, of the Papal Basilica of Saint Mary Major.

Created and proclaimed Cardinal by Pope Francis in the consistory of 7 December 2024, of the Deaconry of S. Eustachio.