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 | | The heavy concentration in what is now the Apostolic Administration of Western Siberia, some 1,000,000, is the heritage of mass deportations of historically Catholic Volga Germans, Poles, and Lithuanians in the Soviet era, with 200,000 Catholics in Northern European Russia and only 50,000 in Eastern Siberia and 35,000 in Southern European Russia, respectively. |
 | | Similarly, the creation of apostolic administrations rather than dioceses as described earlier is an attempt to counter Orthodox opposition to the existence of parallel canonical structures on the same territory. |
 | | On the other hand, because the two foreign-born apostolic administrators appointed in 1999, Clemens Pickel for Southern European Russia and Jerzy Mazur for Eastern Siberia, lack residence permits and have had their applications for Russian citizenship refused, their administrations cannot be registered as religious organizations. |
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