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Antons Justs

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Antons Justs
Bishop of Jelgava
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Church Catholic Church
Diocese Diocese of Jelgava
In office 7 December 1995 – 22 July 2011
Predecessor Diocese erected
Successor Edvards Pavlovskis
Orders
Ordination 11 July 1960
by Boļeslavs Sloskāns[1]
Consecration 6 January 1996
by Pope John Paul II[1]
Personal details
Born 22 November 1931
Varakļāni, Latgale, Latvia
Died 17 February 2019 (aged 87)
Jelgava, Latvia

Antons Justs (22 November 1931 – 17 February 2019) was a Latvian Roman Catholic bishop.

Justs was born in Latvia and was ordained to the priesthood in 1960. After serving in Virginia in the U.S., he served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Jelgava, Latvia, from 1996 to 2011.[2]

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