The Very Revd. Dr. Andris Abakuks (Dean emeritus) was a mathematician and statistician by profession; he studied mathematics at the University of Cambridge and received a doctorate from the University of Sussex. From 1973 until 2015 he was a Lecturer in Statistics at Birkbeck College, University of London.
He has been an active member of the Latvian community; from 1985 to 1993 he was chairman of the Latvian National Council in Great Britain.
From 1995 to 2003 he studied theology at King’s College, University of London, obtaining an MA in Systematic Theology. In 2002 he was ordained as a pastor. From 2007 to 2022 he was Dean of the Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in Great Britain. Since 2016 he has been pastor of the congregation in the West of England and Wales and since 2020 also pastor of the United London Latvian Lutheran Church. Since 2016 he has had Permission to Officiate in the Church of England Diocese of Guildford.
