Apostolic Administration of Estonia

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The Apostolic Administration of Estonia is a Latin Church, territorial Catholic circonscription (ecclesiastical jurisdiction) that covers the entire country of Estonia.

It is an apostolic administration (quasi-diocesan jurisdiction) of the Latin Roman Catholic church in Estonia, hence is exempt (i.e. directly subject to the Holy See, not part of any ecclesiastical province) and has its cathedral episcopal see, the St. Peter and St. Paul's Cathedral, in the national capital Tallinn.

The post of apostolic administrator has often been held by

Since 1992, after Estonia's post-communist independence, apostolic administrators are once again appointed. It enjoyed a papal visit in September 1993 from Pope John Paul II.

Apostolic Administrators of Estonia

• Apostolic Internuncio
  to Latvia (1926.04.14 – 1935.03.07), Apostolic Delegate to Estonia (1927 – 1932)
• Eduard Profittlich, S.J. (1931.05.11 – 1942.02.22)
• vacancy in Soviet era
• Apostolic Nuncio to Estonia (1991.11.30 – 1997.04.02), to Latvia
  (1991.11.30 – 1997.04.02) and to Lithuania (1991.11.30 – 1997.04.02)
• Erwin Josef Ender (1997.08.09 – 2001.05.19), Titular Archbishop of Germania in Numidia (1990.03.15 – ...), Apostolic Nuncio to Estonia (1997.07.09 – 2001.05.19), to Latvia (1997.07.09 – 2001.05.19) and to Lithuania (1997.07.09 – 2001.05.19)
• Glastonbury
  (1993.11.13 – ...), Apostolic Nuncio to Estonia (2001.10.25 – 2009.01.14), to Latvia (2001.10.25 – 2009.01.14) and to Lithuania (2001.10.25 – 2009.01.14)
• Titular Bishop of Pertusa
  (2005.04.01 – ...)

• Immaculate Conception Church, Tartu

References

Source and external links

• GigaCatholic, with incumbent biography links

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