Ä€rvaldis Andrejs Brumanis

Ārvaldis Andrejs Brumanis ( born February 16, 1926 in Klostere at Aizpute, Latvia, † December 17, 2013 in Liepāja ) was Roman Catholic Bishop of Liepāja.

Life

Ārvaldis Andrejs Brumanis, son of a peasant family in Courland, was drafted after attending the School of Agriculture in 1944 in the Latvian Legion of the German Army, 1945 wounded at the front, and came after the German capitulation in Lübeck in captivity. Jazeps Rancans, Auxiliary Bishop of Riga, could secure his release. In the labor camp Noietingas who learned the Belarusian Bishop Boleslav Sloskans know and decided to become a priest. In the Belgian Namur and at Salesians in Brussels, he learned the French language and studied in the Latvian Seminary in Namur 1950-1954 philosophy and theology. On 25 July 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 ). He has a PhD in church history with a written in French work on the Belarusian Metropolitan of Mogilev, Stanisław Siestrzeńcewicz 1968.

From 1961 to 1968 he worked as a chaplain in the St Nikolas church in Namur. He was called by Pope Paul VI in 1968. appointed Monsignor. From 1968 to 1993 he was editor of the Latvian Department at Vatican Radio. He became a lecturer at the theological seminary in Riga and at the Institute for catechists 1992.

Pope John Paul II appointed him December 7, 1995 as Bishop of Liepāja and donated to him on January 6, 1996 in St. Peter to Rome itself episcopal ordination. Co-consecrators were the Curia Archbishops Giovanni Battista Re and Jorge María Mejía. On 12 May 2001, John Paul II took his on the grounds of age pre- mounted resignation.

On the occasion of Latvia's independence day on May 4, 2013, was awarded the Three Star Order.

Writings

• 25 gadus strādājis Vatikāna Radio, 2011