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* Jānis Pujāts, Archbishop of Riga, Latvia-made cardinal 1998, revealed 2001.
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* Jānis Pujāts of Riga, Latvia-made cardinal 1998, revealed 2001.
Jānis and Archbishop
In this difficult — one might say desperate — situation, Jānis ( Pommers ), a native Latvian, was appointed Archbishop of Riga in 1921.
In 2001 a council of the Latvian Orthodox Church canonised Archbishop Jānis in recognition of his heroic martyrdom in 1934.
Jānis Pujats was made Archbishop of Riga in 1991.
Jānis and Riga
Jānis Pujats ( born 14 November 1930 ) is the archbishop emeritus of Riga, Latvia.
At a young age she moved to Riga from the Latvian countryside to study painting, first at the Jānis Rozentāls Art High School and then at the Latvian Academy of Art.
Zodiac was formed by Jānis Lūsēns, then studying composition at the Latvian State Conservatory in Riga ( now Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music ).
Jānis and revealed
On 14 December 1948, after an interview with Federal Bureau of Investigation agents, Barmine revealed that Soviet GRU Director Jānis Bērziņš had informed him prior to his 1937 defection that American professor and former Office of War Information director Owen Lattimore was a Soviet agent.
Jānis and .
The Latviju dainas are extensively used in the classical choral works of Andrejs Jurāns, Jānis Cimze, and Emilis Melngailis.
* 1930 – Jānis Krūmiņš, Latvian basketball player ( d. 1994 )
Under Commissar Jānis K. Bērziņš, the Special Punitive Brigades took hostages from the villages of deserters, to compel their surrender ; one in ten was executed.
* March 14 – Jānis Čakste, Latvian politician, first president of Latvian Republic ( b. 1859 )
There are unconfirmed reports that Jānis Lūsis, the non-cricketer Soviet javelin thrower, who won the Olympic gold medal in 1968, once threw a ball 150 yards.
Some theories, such as Jānis Endzelīns ' considered that the Baltic languages form their own distinct branch of the family of Indo-European languages, but the most widely accepted opinion is the one that suggests the union of Baltic and Slavic languages into a distinct sub-family of Balto-Slavic languages amongst the Indo-European family of languages.
Jāņi is an ancient festival originally celebrated in honour a Latvian pagan deity Jānis, referred to as a " Son of God " in some ancient Latvian folksongs.
Jānis is also traditionally the most common of Latvian male given names, corresponding to English name John, and everybody of the name Jānis holds a special honor on this day ( Jāņi is a plural form of Jānis ) and wears an oak wreath.
Besides John, the name of Jānis is also etymologically linked with other names of various nations, such as Aeneas, Dionysus, Jonash, Jan, Jean, Johan, João, Ian, Ivan, Huan, and Han.
Latvian music: Its traditional long suppressed or appropriated by the Soviet Union, Latvia's kokle ( an instrument similar to a zither ) was revived and popular in the 1970s, led by Jānis Porikis.
Between Nereta and Aknīste there is a memorial museum " Riekstiņi " of famous Latvian writer Jānis Jaunsudrabiņš.
In the 1970s, artists like Jānis Porikis and Valdis Muktupāvels led a revival in kokle music, which had only survived in the Courland / Kurzeme and Lettgallia / Latgale regions.
Latvian poet Jānis Rainis had some Votic roots.
It had Jānis Čakste as its chairman and Kārlis Ulmanis as the prime minister of the temporary government.
* Jānis Ivanovs's Symphony No. 2
Rainis was the pseudonym of Jānis Pliekšāns ( — d. September 12, 1929 ) was a Latvian poet, playwright, translator, and politician.
During this period, PCTVL's most prominent leaders were Jānis Jurkāns, Alfrēds Rubiks and Tatjana Ždanoka.
The Latvian Popular Front was founded in June 1988, On October 4, 1988 Gorbachev replaced Boris Pugo the ' old guard ' leader of the Communist Party of Latvia with the more liberal Jānis Vagris.
Its leader, Jānis Jurkāns, was the first Minister of Foreign Affairs of newly independent Latvia, from 1990 to 1992 when he had to leave the government for his stance on relations with Russia.
Jānis Jurkāns served as its leader from then until 2005, when he resigned.
Pujāts and Riga
In a May 2007 open letter protesting a gay pride march scheduled for 3 June 2007 as part of the Riga Pride and Friendship Days, Pujāts referred to homosexuality as " absolute depravity in sexual behavior " and an " unnatural form of prostitution ".
Archbishop and Riga
# Wilhelm, ( 30 June 1498, Ansbach – 4 February 1563, Riga ), Archbishop of Riga in 1539-63.
Then along with Archbishop Wilhelm von Brandenburg of The Archbishopric of Riga and his Coadjutor Christoph von Mecklenburg, Kettler gave to Magnus the portions of The Kingdom of Livonia, which he had taken possession of, but they refused to give him any more land.
Shortly after that Erik XIV started acting quickly lost any allies he was about to obtain, either from Magnus or the Archbishop of Riga.
Tautvilas strengthened his position by traveling to Riga and accepting baptism by the Archbishop.
Attacked from the north and south and facing the possibility of unrest elsewhere, Mindaugas was placed in an extremely difficult position, but managed to use the conflicts between the Livonian Order and the Archbishop of Riga to further his own interests.
The other bull specified that the new bishop was to be directly subordinate to the Holy See, rather than to the Archbishop of Riga.
In 1243, the Bishopric of Pomesania and the other three dioceses ( Bishopric of Samland, Archbishopric of Warmia, and Bishopric of Culm ) were put under the jurisdiction of the Archbishop of Riga by papal legate William of Modena.
Wilhelm of Brandenburg-Ansbach, the last Archbishop of Riga
Wilhelm von Brandenburg ( 30 June 1498 – 4 February 1563 ) was the Archbishop of Riga from 1539 to 1561.
This action was supported by the Archbishop of Riga Frederic Lobestat.
* June 16 – Johannes Ambundii, Archbishop of Riga
In the 14th century the Archbishop of Riga built a stone castle around which a populated area was formed.
John, Archbishop of Riga, brought several objections before the council, but in general the German delegates aroused hostility and were compelled to flee the city.
Curonian resistance was finally subdued in 1266, when the whole of Courland was partitioned between the Livonian Order and the Archbishop of Riga.
The nominal head of Terra Mariana as well as the city of Riga was the Archbishop of Riga as the apex of the ecclesiastical hierarchy.
Technically, the Archbishop of Riga was the feudal and ecclesiastical superior, first over the Teutonic Knights, later over the Livonian Order.
1200 – 1273 ) was the first Archbishop of Riga in Livonia.
After the death of Albert of Riga in 1229, he was appointed Bishop of Riga by Archbishop of Bremen Gerhard of Oldenburg.
* New martyr John, Archbishop of Riga in Latvia ( 1934 )
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