Teodors Grīnbergs

Teodors Grīnbergs (2 April 1870 - 14 June 1962) was a Latvian prelate of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia and its first archbishop from 1932.

[citation needed] In 1929 the Faculty of Theology of the University of Latvia awarded Grīnbergs an honorary doctorate, and in 1932 he was elected as an external professor.

In the same year he was elected Archbishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia, the first prelate with this title.

[1] Archbishop Eidem of Uppsala wished Kārlis Irbe to take part in the consecration that was planned, but he refused.

Archbishop Grīnbergs continued to lead the church in exile until his death at Esslingen am Neckar in West Germany on 14 June 1962.