ESTONIA

ESTONIA*
Catholicism was introduced in Estonia in the course of the 13th century. In the 17th
century, when Estonia came under Swedish rule, the Catholic Church was practically
expelled from the country, the only remaining catholics being some foreigners.
In the 19th century there was a revival and in 1844 the first modern church was
build in Tallinn.  
The territory was part of the Russian Archdiocese Mohilev from 1783 to 1918 and
then of the Latvian Diocese - later Archdiocese (1923) - of Riga. In 1924 it became
a separate Apostolic Administration, directly dependent of the Holy See.

Apostolic Administrators

1924 - 1931   Antonino Zecchini, Titular Archbishop of
              Myra in Licia                                  1864 - 1935
1931 - 1942   Eduard Profittlich, Titular Archbishop 
              of Hadrianopolis in Haemimonto (1936)          1890 - 1942
1942 - 1945   Henri Werling*                                 1879 - 1961


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