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The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Riga is an archdiocese administered from the capital city of Riga in Latvia. Its cathedral is Svētā Jēkaba Katedrāle. It is a metropolitan archdiocese which also helps to administer three suffragan dioceses in the Ecclesiastical province of Riga in Latvia. ==History== * 1186: Established as Diocese of Üxküll * 1 October 1188: Designated a suffragan of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Hamburg-Bremen, Germany〔Jānis Broks (2002), ''Katolicisms Latvijā 800 Gados: 1186-1986, Vēsturisks Atskats'', p. 40, ISBN 9984-619-40-0〕 * 1202: Renamed as Diocese of Riga * 20 January 1255: Promoted as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Riga〔Broks, p. 62〕 * 1561: Suppressed * 22 September 1918: Restored as Diocese of Riga from territory of Vidzeme, Latgale, and Estonia * 9 June 1920: Added territory of Courland and Zemgale from Diocese of Samogitia〔''Samogitiensis et Rigensis: De finium dioecesanorum commutatione'', Acta Apostolicae Sedis, (Volume 12 ) (1920), p. 270〕 * 25 October 1923: Promoted as Archdiocese of Riga〔''Rigensis: Erectionis in archiepiscopatum'', Acta Apostolicae Sedis, (Volume 15 ) (1923), p. 585〕 * 1 November 1924: Lost territory to new Apostolic Administration of Estonia〔Toomas Abiline and Indrek Oper (2006?), (''St Peter and St Paul's Cathedral in Tallinn'' ), The Apostolic Administration of Estonia, Tallinn, p. 10〕 * 8 May 1937: Promoted as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Riga;〔''Rigensis: Archiepiscopalis ecclesia Rigensis ad metropolitanae ecclesiae gradum et dignitatem evehitur novaque provincia ecclesiastica sub nomine < * 2 December 1995: Lost territory to new Diocese of Rēzekne–Aglona〔''Rezeknensis-Aglonensis: In Lettonia nova conditur dioecesis Rezeknensis-Aglonensis'', Acta Apostolicae Sedis, (Volume 88 ) (1996), p. 344〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Riga」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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