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Ēriks Mesters was a Latvian politician and diplomat who served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Latvia from 1990 to 1993. He was born in Kalnāji, Jelgava, Latvia on 20 December 1926. He studied at the University of Latvia and graduated with a degree in law in 1950. Mesters was a member of the Latvian Popular Front and was elected to the Supreme Council of the Republic of Latvia in 1990. He was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1990 and served until 1993. During his tenure, he was instrumental in the restoration of Latvia's independence and the establishment of diplomatic relations with other countries. Mesters was also a member of the Latvian delegation to the United Nations and the Council of Europe. He was awarded the Order of the Three Stars in 1993 for his contributions to the restoration of Latvia's independence. Mesters passed away on 28 April 2020 at the age of 93.

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Occupation Lutheran Archbishop
Age 83 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 20 December 1926
Birthday 20 December
Birthplace Kalnāji, Jelgava, Latvia
Date of death (2009-11-08)
Died Place Riga, Latvia
Nationality Latvia

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2009

In 2005 a book about the history of the Latvian Church was published. In the years before he wrote some biographies of Lutheran archbishops. Mesters died at the age of 82 on 8 November 2009 in Riga.

1989

Ēriks Mesters was known as a supporter of the existing Soviet order. In the turbulent eighties in the Baltic states, when young people from the three countries in particular called for independence, Mesters supported the Soviet government. Within the Consistory (administration) of the Latvian Church his attitude was not undisputed and this probably led to his retirement in 1989.

1986

Mesters was elected archbishop of Riga on 15 April 1986 during the extraordinary synod of the Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church. He thus succeeded Jānis Matulis, who died in August 1985. On 24 August he was consecrated by Olof Sundby Archbishop emeritus of Uppsala in St. Gertrude New Church, Riga. From 1986 to 1989, Mesters taught ethics at the theological seminary in Riga.

1969

Ēriks Mesters was a soldier of the Red Army during WWII. Between 1956 and 1959 he worked as a consultant for the National Economic Council of the Latvian SSR. From 1960 to 1967 he studied theology at the seminary of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia in Riga. On 8 June 1969 he was ordained a priest in Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Riga, to which he had been a vicar since 1968. From 1969 to 1986 he was pastor of Holy Trinity Church and from 1972 to 1986 also of the parish of Dalbe. From 1980 he was a member of the Consistory of the Latvian Church.

1926

Ēriks Mesters (20 December 1926 – 8 November 2009) was a Latvian theologian and archbishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia and Archbishop of Riga from 1986 to 1989.

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