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As of March 2018, the LOAC had not been recognized by Latvia as an Orthodox religious organization. [10] However, in October 2019, the LOAC managed to be officially registered along with the Latvian Orthodox Church, because the LOAC claimed it (the LOAC) was already registered in 1936. [14] [15] The church had around 14 parishes as of 2006. [7]
The Latvian Orthodox Church (Latvian: Latvijas Pareizticīgā Baznīca) is an Eastern Orthodox church in Latvia, part of the wider Eastern Orthodoxy community.The primate of the church carries the title of Metropolitan of Riga and all Latvia (Latvian: Rīgas un visas Latvijas metropolīts).
The Cathedral of Sts Simeon and Anne (Latvian: Jelgavas Sv. Simeona un Sv. Simeona un Sv. Annas pareizticīgo katedrāle , Russian : Собор Симеона и Анны ), located at 12 Akadēmijas Street in Jelgava , is a cathedral of the Latvian Orthodox Church , one of four Orthodox cathedrals in Latvia .
The Latvian Orthodox Church is then-semi-autonomous and has 400,000 members. [10] Orthodoxy predominates among the Latvian Russian population. As of 2022, the population of Jews in Latvia was 4,000, although some estimates are double this; [17] there are 1,000 Muslims in Latvia. [10] The neopagan Latvian ethnic religion is Dievturība.
In independent Latvia, the Nativity of Christ Cathedral once again became an Orthodox cathedral in 1921. Archbishop Jānis Pommers , a native Latvian, played a key part in the defence of the cathedral, including defence from the Latvian government which was extremely unfriendly to Orthodox Church in the first years of an independent Latvia.
The Saints Boris and Gleb Cathedral (Russian: Борисоглебский собор, [n 1] Latvian: Svēto Borisa un Gļeba pareizticīgo katedrāle) is the main Orthodox church in Daugavpils, Latvia. It can hold 5,000 people, being the biggest Orthodox church in Latvia. [1] [2]
The symbol, designed by Burkards Dzenis, consisted of a Sun (a symbol of self-determination, used in badges of the Latvian Riflemen) with 17 rays, symbolizing the counties inhabited by Latvians. The bottom of the disk was covered by a ribbon in the colors of the Latvian flag. At the center of the solar disk a letter "L" and three stars were placed.
The Flag of Latvia. The national flag of Latvia is a carmine red field with a narrow white stripe in the middle. The flag was created in 1917, inspired by a 13th-century legend from the Rhymed Chronicle of Livonia that a Latgalian leader was wounded in battle, and the edges of the white sheet in which he was wrapped were stained by his blood with the center stripe of the flag is left unstained.