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    Eduard Gottlieb Profittlich, SJ (11 September 1890 – 22 February 1942) was a German Catholic prelate who served as Apostolic Administrator of Estonia...
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    was occupied and annexed into the USSR after the death of Bishop Eduard Profittlich in 1942 because of the suppression of the Church by Soviet communist...
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    April, the day before the death of John Paul II. His predecessor, Eduard Profittlich S.J., died in 1942 in a Soviet prison. "Piiskop Jourdan: inimesed...
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  • Companions Francis Xavier Truong Buu Diep Floribert Bwana Chui Bin Kositi Eduard Profittlich Elia Comini ^1 Later canonized on 16 October 2016. ^2 Later canonized...
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    religion. The Holy See recognized Estonia on 10 October 1921. In 1931 Eduard Profittlich, S.J. became the apostolic administrator for the Catholic Church in...
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    Catholic parishes of Trans-Olza, where Pius XI had deposed them in 1938. Eduard Profittlich, S.J., the apostolic administrator of Estonia, was one of many Catholic...
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  • and Estonia. On 11 May 1931, he was succeeded as Administrator by Eduard Profittlich, another Jesuit. Zecchini resigned as Apostolic Delegate to Estonia...
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