Is there a big Catholic presence in Russia?

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And if so, does that mean there is such a thing as cossacks in cassocks?
 
I remember reading that there are about 1.5 million Catholics in Russia. This is not a lot for a country with a population of 145 million.
 
Hmm, Wikipedia disproved my assumption that most Catholics in Russia are not actually Russians: “The number of “ethnic Catholics” in Russia, that is to say Poles and Germans, and smaller minorities, is continually declining due to emigration and secularisation. At the same time there has been a discrete rise of ethnic Russian converts to the Catholic Church.”

From the same Wikipedia page already quoted. So, I guess there is a growing number of ethnic Russians who are Catholic. But, whenever I pray for Russia, I certainly am not praying for their conversion to Catholicism. I’m praying for the reunion of the Orthodox with the Catholic Church.

All that being said, I’m sure that the Russian Orthodox also wear cassocks lol
 
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