Estonia Sees Resurgence of the Church

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Estonia Sees Resurgence of the Church

Interview With First Bishop Ordained Since World War II

TALLINN, Estonia, SEPT. 27, 2005 (Zenit.org).- The Catholic Church in Estonia is re-emerging after decades of Soviet rule. Proof of this is the ordination on Sept. 10 of Monsignor Philippe Jourdan, its first bishop since the end of World War II.

The last resident Catholic archbishop in Estonia was Edward Profittlich, who was martyred in 1942 in the Kirov Soviet concentration camp.

In this interview with ZENIT, Bishop Jourdan, 45, of French origin, talks about his challenges and hopes in the republic of 1.3 million people.

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Some good news from the former Easter Block
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Happy Easter!😉

This is interesting. Is it fair to assume this would be the bishop for the Latin Church?

Also, who did Estonians look to as bishop prior to this?
 
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Happy Easter!😉

This is interesting. Is it fair to assume this would be the bishop for the Latin Church?
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Yes it would. The Baltic state are historically Latin Rite.

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Very good news, they´re only 5 thousand but with the protestant secularism, now, the Catholic Church is the moral pillar of the stonian society.
 
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Very good news, they´re only 5 thousand but with the protestant secularism, now, the Catholic Church is the moral pillar of the stonian society.
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I’m confident that in addition to the Lutheran secularists, there are also Orthodox secularists, pro-Communist secularists, anti-Communist secularists, and even a few Catholic secularists. Hopefully the new bishop can help in this matter.
 
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I’m confident that in addition to the Lutheran secularists, there are also Orthodox secularists, pro-Communist secularists, anti-Communist secularists, and even a few Catholic secularists. Hopefully the new bishop can help in this matter.
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Yes, it´s true, but the nothern protestant Europe is very weak, much more than the secularised catholic South Europe.
 
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