The Holy Father has elevated the Apostolic Administration of Estonia to a diocese, and appointed Bishop Philippe Jourdan as first bishop of Tallinn. Bishop Jourdan was formerly serving as the Apostolic Administrator of Estonia.<\/p>\n
The Vatican made the\u00a0announcement\u00a0on September 26, 2024, coinciding with the start of the pope\u2019s apostolic\u00a0<\/strong>journey\u00a0to Luxembourg and Belgium. The Pope’s announcement was read out on the same day in Tallinn’s Sts Peter and Paul Cathedral by Archbishop Georg G\u00e4nswein, the Apostolic Nuncio of the Holy See in the Baltics.<\/p>\n The Ambassador of the Order of Malta accompanied by the board members of OMRO Representatives of the Order of Malta were also present at this extremely important and historic moment.<\/p>\n Roman Catholicism has existed on Estonian territory for at least eight centuries, but the Catholic community was only constituted as a proper circumscription in the Roman-Catholic Church since 1924. Pope Pius XI established the Apostolic Administration of Estonia that year, meaning the Catholics of Estonia were no longer under the jurisdiction of the Diocese of Riga.<\/p>\n The creation of the Diocese of Tallinn testifies to the stability of the situation of the Catholic Church in Estonia, and is also a recognition by the Catholic Church of the pastoral and organisational maturity of the Estonian Catholic community.<\/p>\n This change is also an acknowledgement of the growth and importance of the Estonian Catholic community in Estonia, while also strengthening its spiritual and missionary spirit among the people of God in the territory of the Republic of Estonia.<\/p>\n According to the national census of Estonia, about 0.78% of the population is Catholic, and it is one of the few Churches in Europe recording steady growth.<\/p>\n","news_gallery":"no","news_excerpt":"The Holy Father has elevated the Apostolic Administration of Estonia to a diocese, and appointed Bishop Philippe Jourdan as first bishop of Tallinn. Bishop Jourdan was formerly serving as the Apostolic Administrator of Estonia.\r\nThe Vatican made the\u00a0announcement\u00a0on September 26, 2024, coinciding with the start of the pope\u2019s apostolic\u00a0journey\u00a0to Luxembourg and Belgium. The Pope's announcement was read out on the same day in Tallinn's Sts Peter and Paul Cathedral by Archbishop Georg G\u00e4nswein, the Apostolic Nuncio of the Holy See in the Baltics."},"news_categories":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/estoniaembassy.orderofmalta.int\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/notizie\/688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/estoniaembassy.orderofmalta.int\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/notizie"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/estoniaembassy.orderofmalta.int\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/estoniaembassy.orderofmalta.int\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/notizie\/688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/estoniaembassy.orderofmalta.int\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}