Ārvaldis Andrejs Brumanis
Ārvaldis Andrejs Brumanis (born February 16, 1926 in Klostere near Aizpute , Latvia ; † December 17, 2013 in Liepāja ) was the Roman Catholic Bishop of Liepāja .
Life
Ārvaldis Andrejs Brumanis, son of a Kurland farming family, was drafted into the Latvian Legion of the German army after attending agricultural school in 1944 , wounded at the front in 1945 and was taken prisoner after the German surrender in Lübeck . Jāzeps Rancāns , auxiliary bishop from Riga, was able to obtain his release. In the Noietingas labor camp, he met the Belarusian bishop Boļeslavs Sloskāns and decided to become a priest. In the Belgian Namur and for Salesians in Brussels he learned the French language and studied in the Latvian seminary in Namur 1950-1954 philosophy and theology. On July 25, 1954 he received in Namur by Bishop André Marie Charue the priesthood . He studied church history at the Catholic University of Leuven and the University of Mainz (1954–1957) and Catholic theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome (1957–1960). In 1968 he was in church history with a written in French work on the Belarusian Metropolitan of Mogilev , Stanisław Siestrzeńcewicz , PhD .
From 1961 to 1968 he worked as a pastor in the St. Nikolas parish in Namur. In 1968 he was appointed by Pope Paul VI. appointed monsignor. From 1968 to 1993 he was an editor in the Latvian section of Vatican Radio . In 1992 he became a lecturer at the theological seminary in Riga and at the Institute for Catechists.
Pope John Paul II appointed him Bishop of Liepāja on December 7, 1995, and on January 6, 1996 in St. Peter in Rome, he himself donated the episcopal ordination . Co-consecrators were the Archbishops of the Curia Giovanni Battista Re and Jorge María Mejía . On May 12, 2001, John Paul II accepted his resignation because of his age.
On the occasion of the Latvian Independence Day on May 4, 2013, he was awarded the three-star medal.
Fonts
- 25 gadus strādājis Vatikāna Radio , 2011
Web links
- Entry on Ārvaldis Andrejs Brumanis on catholic-hierarchy.org ; Retrieved December 19, 2013.
- Biography of Ārvaldis Andrejs Brumanis (Latvian)
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Jānis Bulis |
Bishop of Liepāja 1995-2001 |
Vilhelms Lapelis |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brumanis, Ārvaldis Andrejs |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Latvian clergyman, Roman Catholic bishop of Liepaja |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 16, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Klostere , near Aizpute , Latvia |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th December 2013 |
| Place of death | Liepāja |