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This is the List of churches in Estonia. It aims to include all current churches, chapels and monasteries in the current territory of Estonia, as well as former Christian sacral buildings that were specially designed for that purpose. The list may not include all smaller chapels located within churchyards and cemeteries, as well as regular ...
The Catholic Church in Estonia (Estonian: Katoliku kirik Eestis) is the national branch of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. [ 1 ] History of Catholicism in Estonia
St Mary's Cathedral (Dome Church) Tallinn: 1240: Evangelical Lutheran Church: Archdiocese of Tallinn: Alexander Nevsky Cathedral: Tallinn: 1900: Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate: Archdiocese of Tallinn and All of Estonia
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Following Sweden's loss of Estonia to the Russian Empire during the Great Northern War, religious freedom was introduced by the new authorities. In 1799, the Catholic parish had grown large enough to be granted the former refectory of the long-since closed St. Catherine's Monastery as a place of worship on the site of the present church. In ...
The national church of Estonia is the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church, of which St John's is a parish church. The motivation for construction was the large size of the existing congregation at the neighbouring Holy Spirit parish church (sometimes translated 'Holy Ghost'), which by the mid-nineteenth century numbered more than 14,000 ...
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Under Estonian law, another church – the Estonian Apostolic Orthodox Church (Eesti Apostlik-Õigeusu Kirik) – is the legal successor to the pre-World War II Estonian Orthodox Church, which in 1940 had had over 210,000 faithful, three bishops, 156 parishes, 131 priests, 19 deacons, two monasteries, and a theological seminary, the majority of ...